[Fr.; f. L. frūct-us fruit + Gr. δῶρον gift.] The twelfth month of the French revolutionary calendar (from Aug. 18 to Sept. 16); the revolution which took place in that month in 1797. Hence Fructidorian, a., belonging to the party that came into power in Fructidor.
1793–97. Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1799), 35, note. The explosion of the 18th Fructidor.
1884. J. R. Seeley, in Encycl. Brit., XVII. 199. The catastrophe came on 18th Fructidor (September 4, 1797)…. Such was Fructidor, which may be considered as the third of the revolutions which compose the … French Revolution…. The circle of Madame de Staël was strongly Fructidorian.
