Definition of Brumaire in English:
Brumaire
noun bruːˈmɛːbʀymɛʀbro͝oˈmer
The second month of the French Republican calendar (1793–1805), originally running from 22 October to 20 November.
Example sentencesExamples
- Marx also wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.
- It ended with Napoleon's coup d'état on 18 Brumaire.
- Time itself was changed and months from the revolutionary calendar, denoting crucial events in Thermidor or Brumaire, were also added to the lexicon.
- With the coup d'état of the 18th Brumaire 1799, which brought Bonaparte to power, Paine was again under suspicion.
- The pretext for the Brumaire coup had been the prevention of a Jacobin plot, and in the course of it 62 left-wing deputies were excluded from the national representation.
Origin
French, from brume 'mist'.