The Reign of Terror came to an end, the reaction of thermidor set in; but this was nothing to Alfieri, for, whereas the unspeakable profanation of what was his own personal and quasi-private property, liberty, had hitherto been limited to France, it now spread, a frightful invading abomination, with the armies of the Directory all over the world; nay, to Italy itself.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
Buonaparte had already appeared timidly and awkwardly at the salon of the voluptuous Barras, where the fair but frail Madame Tallien-Notre Dame de thermidor she was styled-dazzled Parisian society by her classic features and the uncinctured grace of her attire.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
"The senatus consultum of the 16th of thermidor, year 10, named Bonaparte consul for life.
"Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I"
Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon