Joachim Murat
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Joachim Murat was a French military commander and statesman who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Under the French Empire he received the military titles of Marshal of the Empire and Admiral of France. He was the first Prince Murat, Grand Duke of Berg from 1806 to 1808, and King of Naples as Joachim-Napoleon from 1808 to 1815.
Murat at the Battle of Abukir, painted by Antoine-Jean Gros (1804)
Murat in hussar uniform as commander of the Consular Guard, by François Gérard (1801)
Murat leading a cavalry charge at the Battle of Jena, 14 October 1806
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