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- proper noun historical The eleventh month of the
French Republican Calendar , from July 19 or 20 to August 18 or 19.
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"Thermidor" it is estimated that more than three million people assisted at what they rightly, or wrongly, considered as a "spectacle" staged only for their amusement.
Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus
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On October 5th the company did Sardou's big drama of "Thermidor" for the first time on any stage, with another one of the casts for which Charles
Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Daniel Frohman 1895
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"Thermidor," France, Virgil Vernier Balint Kenyeres
SpoutBlog 2009
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The radicals are, in turn, deposed, initiating a period of stabilization “Thermidor”, in which new elites, enriched by the redistribution of property, dominate.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Yeltsin starts out as the “radical,” but, around 1994, has to guillotine his inner Robespierre to preside over the Thermidor.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Yet as the Revolution slowed, the phrase receded.136 With Thermidor, or the end of Revolutionary Terror, newspapers and local governments urged citizens to remove it.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Yeltsin starts out as the “radical,” but, around 1994, has to guillotine his inner Robespierre to preside over the Thermidor.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The menu from a Waldorf-Astoria chef is similarly classic, with apps like Oysters Rockefeller baked w/ Pernod, and crispy poached egg-topped beef tartare, fronting mains like a 2lb Gruyere-crusted lobster Thermidor, short rib stroganoff, and a double-cut Coke pork chop, though most of the actors around would order "hold the pork chop".
Thrillist: The Astor Room: Live Music, Decadent Food, and Old School Style in (Gasp) Queens Thrillist 2011
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The radicals are, in turn, deposed, initiating a period of stabilization “Thermidor”, in which new elites, enriched by the redistribution of property, dominate.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Yet as the Revolution slowed, the phrase receded.136 With Thermidor, or the end of Revolutionary Terror, newspapers and local governments urged citizens to remove it.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
bilby commented on the word Thermidor
Explanatory rant (and mea culpa) at Whipping Cats.
June 26, 2012