Coup of 18 Brumaire
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The Coup of 18 Brumaire brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of the French First Republic. In the view of most historians, it ended the French Revolution and would soon lead to the coro
Bonaparte at the Council of Five Hundred at Saint-Cloud by François Bouchot, 1840
Lucien Bonaparte, president of the Council of Five Hundred, who engineered the coup that brought his brother to power. Lucien Bonaparte at the Villa Rufinella by Francois-Xavier Fabre, 1808
French Consulate
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The Consulate was the top-level government of the First French Republic from the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799 until the start of the French Empire on 18 May 1804
Coup of 18 Brumaire
…The Coup of 18 Brumaire (French: Coup d'État du 18 Brumaire) brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of the French First Republic. In the view of most historians, it ended the French Revolution and would soon lead to the coronation of Napoleon as Emperor…
Portrait of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, by Jacques Louis David
Adu C 233 Ducos
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès