Thermidor
/ˈθəːmɪdɔː
/ /tɛʀmidɔʀ/noun
1The eleventh month of the French Republican calendar (1793–1805), originally running from 19 July to 17 August.On the ‘ninth and tenth Thermidor of the sixth year of the First French Republic’ - 27-28 July, 1798 that is - the first fruits of Napoleon's plunder from Italy reached Paris....
- With the 9th of Thermidor, the machinery of the Jacobin republic was dismantled.
- Ironically, perhaps, the last collective act of the clubs was to celebrate the anniversary of 9-10 Thermidor.
1.1A reaction of moderates following a revolution, such as that which occurred in Paris on 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) and resulted in the fall of Robespierre.
Derivatives
Thermidorian
- It appealed to lower class Protestants because of its appeal to defend the ‘Protestant Ascendancy’ against the challenge of Republicanism (itself having given way to Thermidorian reaction in France) and Catholicism.
- The ‘sexual revolution’ has already degenerated into a Thermidorian reaction, and what was hoped would be liberation has merely reinvented the old authoritarianism.
- Instead, Lajer-Burcharth highlights the interaction of David's art and certain psychocultural aspects of Thermidorian society shaken by the Terror.
Origin
French, from Greek thermē 'heat' + dōron 'gift'.