Vendémiaire

Vendémiaire (the 'vintage-month'), the first month in the French Revolution calendar, from September 22 to October 21. Memorable in the history of the Revolution is the 13th Vendémiaire of the year IV. (5th October 1795), when the Paris Sections, worked upon by royalist reactionaries, rose in insurrection against the National Convention, but were crushed by the historic whiff of grape-shot by Napoleon Bonaparte, then a young artillery officer.