Brumaire

[ bry-mer ]

noun

1. (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the second month of the year, extending from October 22 to November 20.

Brumaire

/ brymɛr /

noun

1. the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21

Word History and Origins

Origin of Brumaire¹

< French, equivalent to brume brume + -aire -ary

Word History and Origins

Origin of Brumaire¹

C19: from brume mist, from Latin brūma winter; see brume

Example Sentences

“Men make their own history,” wrote Karl Marx in The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.

From The Guardian

With the Abbe Sieyès, Talleyrand and Napoleon organized the overthrow of the Directory on Nov. 9, 1799 — the 18th Brumaire, as it was called by the revolutionary calendar.

From Washington Post

His contextualised critique extends to Marx's early attempts at communist ideology in The Paris Manuscripts, as well as the historical materialism of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.

From The Guardian

There’s a line of Marx’s I love from “The 18th Brumaire Of Louis Napoleon”: “First time tragedy, second time farce.”

From Salon

By the coup d'Etat of the 18 Brumaire.

From Project Gutenberg