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Definition of Prairial
1. Noun. Ninth month of the Revolutionary calendar (May and June); the month of meadows.
Definition of Prairial
1. n. The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18. See Vendemiaire.
Definition of Prairial
1. Proper noun. (historical) The ninth month of the French Republican Calendar, from May 20 or 21 to June 19 or 20. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prairial
Literary usage of Prairial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The Law of 22 Prairial was a sharpening of its most serviceable weapon—the
Revolutionary Tribunal. All forms of evidence, material, moral, verbal, ..."
2. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1908)
"The author of the Law of Prairial had forgotten the minatory word of the sage
... What security was possible under the Law of Prairial 1 After the probity ..."
3. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1898)
"It was the Twentieth of Prairial Two days later Couthon proposed to the Convention
the memorable Law of the Twenty-second Prairial. ..."
4. The French Revolution: Crowned by the French Academy Gobert Prize by Louis Madelin (1916)
"The Councils, due to retire in Prairial, had confirmed all the Germinal
elections, "regardless," writes a foreigner, " of the displeasure of the Directors," ..."
5. The Principal Speeches of the Statesmen and Orators of the French Revolution by Henry Morse Stephens (1892)
"OH i Prairial Year III (20 May 1795) an attempt was made to overthrow the ...
On I Prairial Year III (ao May 1795) a ragged crowd from the Faubourgs St. ..."
6. History of the French Revolution, from 1789 to 1814 by Mignet (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) (1873)
"... its cause—System of the democrats ; Saint-Just—Robespierre's power—Festival
of the Supreme Being—Couthon presents til" law of the 22nd Prairial, ..."
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