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
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
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
French Consulate
…The Consulate (French: Consulat) 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. During this period, Napoleon Bonaparte, with his…
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)