Sénat conservateur
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The Sénat conservateur was an advisory body established in France during the Consulate following the French Revolution. It was established in 1799 under the Constitution of the Year VIII following the Napoleon Bonaparte-led Coup of 18 Brumaire. It lasted until 1814 when Napoleon Bonaparte was overthrown and the Bourbon monarchy was restored. The Sénat was a key element in Napoleon's regime.
Napoleon receives the delegates of the Sénat conservateur at the Stadtschloss, Berlin, 19 November 1806 (painting by René Théodore Berthon, 1808).
The Sénat conservateur met in the Luxembourg Palace.
First page of the Constitution of the Year X.
Painting by Georges Rouget showing Napoleon in Saint-Cloud receiving the sénatus-consulte proclaiming him Emperor of the French (1804).
French Consulate
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The Consulate was the top-level government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire on 10 November 1799 until the start of the French Empire on 18 May 1804. By extension, the term The Consulate also refers to this period of French history.
Portrait of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Image: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, by Jacques Louis David
Image: Adu C 233 Ducos (R., 1747 1816)
Image: Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès