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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the five (in leap-years six) complementary days resulting from the division of the year by the French revolutionists of 1789 into twelve months of thirty days each. They were added at the end of the month Fructidor.
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"We have celebrated the fifth sansculottide of the year II (September twenty-first, 1794) in a manner worthy of the republic and the
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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