Brumaire
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Brumaire was the second month in the French Republican calendar. The month was named after the French brume 'fog', which occurs frequently in France at that time of the year.
Brumaire
French Directory
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The Directory was the system of government established by the French Constitution of 1795. It takes its name from the committee of five men vested with executive power. The Directory governed the Fren
Brumaire
…Brumaire can refer to the coup of 18 Brumaire in the year VIII (9 November 1799), by which General Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the government of the Directory to replace it with the Consulate, as referenced by Karl Marx in his pamphlet, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, in which Marx parallels…
The Convention rises against Robespierre (27 July 1794)
François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas, one of the principal authors of the Constitution of 1795
Paul Barras, President of Directory (1798-1799)
General Lazare Hoche defeated a royalist army that landed in Brittany (July 1795)