A post of vast importance as aforesaid; so much so, in fact, that no less a person than citizen Jean Paul Marat himself came to speak with Bibot on that third day of nivose in the year I of the Republic, with a view to impressing upon him the necessity of keeping his eyes open, and of suspecting every man, woman, and child indiscriminately until they had proved themselves to be true patriots.
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel"
Baroness Orczy
And that was how the Duc and Duchesse de Montreux, with their servants and family, escaped from Paris on that third day of nivose in the year I of the Republic.
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel"
Baroness Orczy
He and his two colleagues, who were Sieyes and Roger Ducos, signed, on the 5th nivose, a decree, setting forth that in future the only festivals to be celebrated by the Republic were the 1st Vendemiaire and the 14th of July, intending by this means to consecrate provisionally the recollection of the foundation of the Republic and of liberty.
"The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton