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insurrection of 13 Vendémiaire Engraving depicting Napoleon commanding French Revolutionary troops against a Royalist insurrection in Paris on 13 Vendémiaire year IV (October 5, 1795).

Vendémiaire

French republican calendar
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Vendémiaire, first month in the French republican calendar. It also was the name given to the event of 13 Vendémiaire of the year IV (October 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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