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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 of the French .
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On 9 November 1799 (18 Brumaire VIII), Bonaparte led the coup of 18 Brumaire, seizing French parliamentary and military power and forcing the sitting directors of the government to resign. On the night of 10 November, a remnant of the Council of Ancients abolished the Constitution of the Year III , ordained the consulate, and legalised the coup ...
Lavalette returned to France with Napoleon, taking part in the latter's 18 Brumaire coup against the French Directory (1799). He occupied a number of offices in the French Consulate and First Empire, most notably eleven years as Minister of Posts, during which he oversaw the covert monitoring of the mail of suspected Royalists.
Campaigns of 1799 in the French Revolutionary Wars; Capture of Bergamo; Capture of Brescia; Battle of Cassano (1799) Battle of Castricum; Combat of Gavi (1799) Siege of Corfu (1798–1799) Coup of 18 Brumaire; Coup of 30 Prairial VII
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power during the Coup of 18 Brumaire. This article lists events from the year 1799 in France.
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In October 1799 Napoleon's brother Lucien Bonaparte was appointed President of the Council of Five Hundred. [13] Soon afterwards, in the coup of 18 Brumaire, Napoleon led a group of grenadiers who drove the council from its chambers and installed him as leader of France as its First Consul. This ended the Council of Five Hundred, the Council of ...