Thermidor

Like all French Republican Calendar months, Thermidor lasted 30 days and was divided into three 10-day weeks called décades (decades).

The new regime, known as The Directory, introduced more conservative policies aimed at stabilizing the revolutionary government.

Leon Trotsky, in his book The Revolution Betrayed, refers to the rise of Joseph Stalin and the accompanying post-revolutionary bureaucracy as the "Soviet Thermidor".

say that it was created by Tony Girod at the Café de Paris, to celebrate the opening of a play called Thermidor.

Thermidor is the name of a story revolving around the end of the French Revolution in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, issue #29.