Vendémiaire (väNdāmyĕr`), first month of the French Revolutionary calendar French Revolutionary calendar, the official calendar of France, Nov. 24, 1793–Dec. 31, 1805. Its introduction was decreed by the Convention on Oct. 5, 1793, but it was computed from Sept.
..... Click the link for more information. . 13 Vendémiaire of the year iv (Oct. 5, 1795) was the day when Napoleon Bonaparte, until then an obscure general, won fame by putting down a serious insurrection. The Parisian electorate had revolted against certain decrees designed to perpetuate the power of the leaders of the Convention in the Directory, which was about to be established. Napoleon, with the blessings of Barras Barras, Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de
..... Click the link for more information. , crushed the rebels with artillery fire—which he later described as "a whiff of grapeshot."

Vendémiaire

First month in the French republican calendar. It also was the name given to the event of 13 Vendémiaire of the year IV (Oct. 5, 1795), when Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte led the French Revolutionary troops that stopped an insurrection of Parisians as they marched against the government.

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