Coup of 18 Brumaire
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The coup d'état of 18 Brumaire brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France. In the view of most historians, it ended the French Revolution and would soon lead to the coronation of Napoleon as emperor. This bloodless coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. This occurred on 9 November 1799, which was 18 Brumaire, Year VIII under the short-lived French Republican calendar system.
Lucien Bonaparte, President of the Council of Five Hundred, who engineered the coup that brought his brother to power
Exit liberté à la François (1799), caricature by James Gillray depicting Napoleon and his grenadiers driving the Council of Five Hundred from the Orangerie
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.
Image: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, by Jacques Louis David
Image: Adu C 233 Ducos (R., 1747 1816)
Image: Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès