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- noun French history A
member orsupporter of the group which took power in thecoup d'état during the month ofFructidor 1797.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Maret, the French envoy at Lille, whose counsels had ever been on the side of moderation, was abruptly replaced by a "Fructidorian"; and a decisive refusal was given to the English demand for the retention of Trinidad and the Cape, at the expense of Spain and the Batavian Republic respectively.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898
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It appears from the Fructidorian correspondence, which has been already given, that the majority of the Directory then looked upon a peace such as Bonaparte afterwards made as infamous.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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It is obviously the clumsy fabrication of a Fructidorian, designed for
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898
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It appears from the Fructidorian correspondence, which has been already given, that the majority of the Directory then looked upon a peace such as Bonaparte afterwards made as infamous.
The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836
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It appears from the Fructidorian correspondence, which has been already given, that the majority of the Directory then looked upon a peace such as Bonaparte afterwards made as infamous.
Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801
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The constitutionals of 1791 and even declared royalists were welcomed back to France, and many of the Fructidorian exiles also returned. [
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898
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