A lot of accounts say that the temperature around the 9th and 10th Thermidor (today and yesterday, the 27th and 28th) was unusually hot, but another source I've read quotes the Paris Observatory and Meteorological reports that it was only around 18-20 degrees, cloudy with sunny spells and a morning shower on the 9th, cloudy, misty (?) with a weak sun, stormy but not raining, 20 degrees, on the 10th. (I'm in England, where it's 18 degrees with a thunderstorm and powerful rain tonight - it's almost midnight - so it would be warm enough at 18 to trigger the sudden rainstorm reported on the night of the 9th-10th!) I've also read an account that says, by the time Robespierre was carried wounded to the ante-room of the CPS on the morning of 10th Thermidor, he had lost his hat...but the first thing he did on sitting up was to pull his stockings up and ask for clean linen (as in, shirt and maybe cravat, which he presumably wasn't given): immaculate to the last!
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Date: 2008-07-28 10:45 pm (UTC)(I'm in England, where it's 18 degrees with a thunderstorm and powerful rain tonight - it's almost midnight - so it would be warm enough at 18 to trigger the sudden rainstorm reported on the night of the 9th-10th!)
I've also read an account that says, by the time Robespierre was carried wounded to the ante-room of the CPS on the morning of 10th Thermidor, he had lost his hat...but the first thing he did on sitting up was to pull his stockings up and ask for clean linen (as in, shirt and maybe cravat, which he presumably wasn't given): immaculate to the last!