Renton
A Dictionary of British Place-Names
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Renton W. Dunb. The town was founded in 1782 and named after Cecilia
Renton, daughter-in-law of Jean Telfer, sister of the novelist Tobias Smollett (1721–74), who was born nearby.
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Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...lawmakers changed, most significantly with the coup of Fructidor 1797, which Brown sees as far more important than the...coup of 1799 that brought Napoleon into power. After Fructidor, the Directory increased its repressive tactics to include...
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Napoleon's rise to power. (Brumaire coup of 9-10 November 1799)(Napoleon & Europe)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...had largely been eroded. The watershed was the coup of 18 Fructidor, Year V (September 4th, 1797). Until this point, the...Carnot, and over fifty of the right-wing deputies. The Fructidor coup foreshadowed the end of the Directory, for three main...
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Risdon-AMS. (Corporate Profiles).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Global Cosmetic Industry; 7/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...Watertown, Connecticut 06795 860-417-1100, fax 860-417-1101 www.risdon-ams.com Risdon S.A. Le Colisee 1 rue Fructidor 75830 Paris Cedex 17, France +33 1 49 18 40 00, fax +33 1 49 18 45 19 Key personnel Stephen T Pearlman, President Steve...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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DEALING WITH RECORDED DATES CAN BE CONFUSING.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 8/22/1996; 700+ words
; ...Germinal (sprouts); Floreal (flowers); Prairial (pasture); Messidor (harvest); Fervidor or Thermidor (hot) and Fructidor (fruit). Vendemiaire ran from Sept. 22 to Oct. 21. Dating calculations and calendars can complicate your genealogical...
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Creme Fresh Ideas From Closures Europe.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Food Trade Review; 12/1/2000; 660 words
; Closures Europe, Le Co1isee, Rue Fructidor, F-75830, Paris, UK Contact, tel:0120 277 4224, have supplied the 82mm ECO style closure to Yoplait for use with their...
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Revolutionary calendar.(French Revolution)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...snow" December Pluviose "rain" January Ventose "wind" February SPRING: Germinal "seed" March Floreal "flower" April Prairial "meadow" May SUMMER: Messidor "harvest" June Thermidor "heat" July Fructidor "fruit" August
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BOURBON Quarterly Financial Results.
PR Newswire; 10/30/2008; 700+ words
; ...high levels of market volatility, also impacted unfavorably on year-on-year revenue growth. The sale of the Supramax Fructidor bulk carrier in early July generated a capital gain for BOURBON of 40.6 million dollars. OPERATIONS AND MAJOR HIGHLIGHTS...
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BOURBON : First Half Revenues Surge 31% at Constant Exchange Rates.
PR Newswire; 8/7/2008; 700+ words
; ...market. The Bulk Division's results will include a $40.6 million capital gain following the July sale of the Supramax Fructidor bulk carrier and the Division will take delivery of two new vessels in December 2008. BSI rates are expected to remain at...
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New millennium just another dating problem
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 1/2/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Germinal (sprouts); Floreal (flowers); Prairial (pasture); Messidor (harvest); Fervidor or Thermidor (hot) and Fructidor (fruit). Vendemiaire ran from Sept. 22 to Oct. 21. Watch those calendars, and happy new year.
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Weekend Break; Master Minds.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 2/5/2005; 679 words
; ...Terry Wogan, Dame Edna Everage, Britt Eckland and Princess Margaret have all appeared in which fictional radio series? 17 Fructidor represented which month in the French revolutionary calendar? 18 What was the spoof James Bond character played Rowan Atkinson...
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Fructidor
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Fructidor , 12th month of the French Revolutionary calendar . The coup of 18 Fructidor (Sept. 4, 1797), in which General Augereau was a key figure, annulled the previous elections and removed Lazare Carnot and François de Barth...
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French Revolutionary calendar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Prairial (pasture); Messidor (harvest); Thermidor (heat); Fructidor (fruit). The remaining five days, called sans-culottides, were...they occurred, see Vendémiaire ; Brumaire ; Thermidor ; Fructidor .
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Charles Pichegru
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Five Hundred (1797), Pichegru was elected its president by the royalist majority. He was later arrested in the coup of 18 Fructidor (1797), but he escaped to England. He returned to France in 1803 to carry out a royalist conspiracy with Georges Cadoudal...
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Directory
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of 1797 and 1798. Its increasingly repressive measures resulted in political isolation and bankruptcy. In the coup of 18 Fructidor (Sept. 4, 1797), the more conservative directors, Lazare Carnot and François de Barthélemy were...
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French
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...Brumaire , Frimaire , Nivose , Pluviose , Ventose , Germinal , Floréal , Prairial , Messidor , Thermidor , and Fructidor , and with five days of festivals at the year's end (six in leap years). It was abandoned under the Napoleonic regime...
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