El nom de Termidoriana es refereix a la data del 9 de Termidor de l'any II (27 de juliol de 1794), que és la data d'acord amb el Calendari Republicà Francès quan Robespierre i altres revolucionaris radicals van ser atacats d'acord amb la resolució presa per la Convenció Nacional. La reacció termidoriana també es refereix al període que hi va haver fins que la Convenció Nacional va ser reemplaçada pel Directori. Figures prominents de la Reacció Termidoriana inclouen Paul Barras, Jean-Lambert Tallien i Joseph Fouché.
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Rudé, George. Robespierre: Portrait of a Revolutionary Democrat. Nova York: Viking Press, 1976. ISBN 0-670-60128-4. A Marxist political portrait of Robespierre, examining his changing imatgeamong historians and the different aspects of Robespierre as an 'ideologue', as a political democrat, as a social democrat, as a practitioner of revolution, as a politician and as a popular leader/leader of revolution, it also touches on his legacy for the future revolutionary leaders Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong.
Schama, Simon. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. Nova York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. ISBN 0-394-55948-7. A revisionist account.
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