Fructidor

Although Royalists formed but a petty fraction of the majority, they raised the alarm that it was seeking to restore monarchy and undo the work Coup d’�tat of the 18th Fructidor. of the Revolution.

This little work is of historical value, in connection with 18 Fructidor, but it was evidently written to carry two practical points.

September 4th.—Day of 18th Fructidor at Paris.

But the Directory drew up an important military law, that of the 6th Fructidor of the year VI., which established compulsory military service for all, under the form of conscription strictly so called.

Fructidor,” against the anarchists, who had got the upper hand in the partial elections of May 1798.