The Alleged military conspiracy of 1877, or attempted coup d'état, was a possible failed coup attempt in France during the May Sixteenth crisis. The aim of the conspirators – led by generals Auguste-A
La Grande Retraite, 1877, a cartoon in Le Grelot [fr]. The political failure of the monarchists is caricatured as a military debacle reminiscent of Napoleon.
Gaëtan de Rochebouët, President of the Council and Minister of War in his short-lived government.
General Changarnier, an advocate of the hard way to achieve the "Third Restoration".
Editorial by Emmanuel-Arthur Bucheron in Le Figaro.
Albert de Broglie, 4th Duke of Broglie was a French monarchist politician, diplomat and writer.
The Princesse de Broglie, the 1853 portrait of Princesse Albert de Broglie, née Joséphine-Eléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.