Fructidor is the twelfth month in the French Republican calendar and the third month of the summer quarter based on the Gregorian calendar. It is a shorthand term for Coup of 18 Fructidor.
Albert Mathiez has written: 'Girondins et Montagnards' 'After Robespierre' 'Le Directoire, du 11 brumaire an IV au 18 fructidor an V' -- subject(s): History
The names of the months, according to the French Revolutionary Calendar, are as follows:Vendémiaire (vintage)Brumaire (mist)Frimaire (frost)Nivôse (snow)Pluvôse (rain)Ventôse (wind)Germinal (seed)Floréal (blossom)Prairial (meadow)Messidor (harvest)Thermidor (heat)Fructidor (fruits)
1797: Coup of 18 Fructidor in France. 1812: War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire. 1944: World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union. 1957: American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School. 1967: Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley. 1970: Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile. 1971: Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board. 1975: The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed. 1977: The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco. 2007: Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
Gradually. Napoleon as First Consul removed the 10-day week, returning to 7. Then on 22 fructidor an XIII (9 septembre 1805), under the Empire, the Senate decreed that the Gregorian calendar would be reinstated on11 nivôse, 1 janvier, 1806. It's worth mentioning that the French are deeply conservative in many ways - I know French people who still count in francs instead of Euros, and in Old Francs at that, 50 years after the reform of the currency - and that practically nobody outside official bulletins ever really used the Republican Calendar except insofar as the 10-day week impacted their working lives..