Lobster Thermidor
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Lobster Thermidor is a French dish of lobster meat cooked in a rich wine sauce, stuffed into a lobster shell and browned. The sauce is often a mixture of egg yolks and brandy, served with an oven-brow
Lobster Thermidor (center of plate)
French Republican calendar
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The French Republican calendar, also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar, was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution and used by the French government for about
Lobster Thermidor
…mustard, typically powdered. In January 1891, the play Thermidor by Victorien Sardou opened in the Comédie-Française theatre, named for month 11 in the new calendar of the French Revolution. It told the story of a young French clerk, Charles-Hippolyte Labussière, an employee of Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety who saved over 1,200…
French Republican Calendar of An III (1794 to 1795), drawn by Philibert-Louis Debucourt
A copy of the French Republican Calendar in the Historical Museum of Lausanne
L AN 2 DE LA REPUBLIQUE FR (Year 2 of the French Republic) on a barn near Geneva, dating to 1793 or 1794
French Revolutionary pocket watch showing ten-day décade names and thirty-day month numbers from the Republican Calendar, but with duodecimal time. On display at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Neuchâtel) In Switzerland.