Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Vendémiaire | Brumaire | Frimaire | Nivôse | Pluviôse | Ventôse | Germinal | Floréal | Prairial | Messidor | Thermidor | Fructidor Germinal is the name of the seventh month in the French Revolutionary Calendar Germinal is also a novel written by Émile Zola, and first published in 1885. This book, often associated with socialism, tells the tale of a mining village in France. The name of the book was taken from the seventh month of the year in the French Revolutionary Calendar. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.