# Quote — Tim Powers, Earthquake Weather

> Cochran recalled that during the French Revolution they had even re-named all the calendar months; the only one he could remember was Thermidor, and he wondered what the others could have been. Fricassee? Jambalaya? Chowder?

- Author: [Tim Powers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers.md)
- Book: [Earthquake Weather](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/earthquake-weather.md)
- Page: 54
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Powers#Earthquake_Weather_(1997)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/earthquake-weather/cochran-recalled-that

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