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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...
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    PBSuccess. 1954 Paraguayan coup d'état: A military coup brings Alfredo Stroessner to power. Coup d'état of Yanaon: A coup d'état led by Dadala Raphael Ramanayya...
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  • The Coup of 30 Prairial Year VII (Coup d'État du 30 prairial an VII), also known as the Revenge of the Councils (revanche des conseils) was a bloodless...
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    of revolutionary factions ruled Paris until 9 November 1799 (coup d'état du 18 brumaire), when Napoleon Bonaparte seized power as First Consul. The population...
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    Look up coup d'état in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A coup d'état (/ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/ ; French: [ku deta]; lit. 'stroke of state'), or simply a coup, is typically...
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    "materialist conception of history". The Eighteenth Brumaire focuses on the 1851 French coup d'état, by which Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, president of the...
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    Monceau. 1799 Passage du Caire (shopping arcade) opens. 10 November – Coup d'état du 18 brumaire, Napoléon Bonaparte stages a coup d'état and dissolves the...
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    France's overseas territories. The "Coup of 18 Brumaire" or "Brumaire" was the coup d'état of Napoleon Bonaparte on 18 Brumaire An VIII (9 November 1799), which...
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    details of the royalist uprising around Toulouse. Hostile to the Coup of 18 Brumaire, he demanded explanations on the extraordinary convocation of the...
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    1799 Passage du Caire [fr] (shopping arcade) opens. 10 November – Coup d'état du 18 brumaire, Napoléon Bonaparte stages a coup d'état and dissolves the...
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    that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate. Many...
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    26 October 1795 (4 Brumaire an IV) until 10 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the...
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    becoming a director in 1799, Sieyès was among the instigators of the Coup of 18 Brumaire (9 November), which installed Napoleon Bonaparte in power. In addition...
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    executed by firing squad, six days after staging a failed republican coup d'état as Napoleon I returned from the disastrous Russian campaign in 1812....
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    Paul Barras (category Leaders who took power by coup)
    Consulate. In any case, Bonaparte met little resistance during his 18 Brumaire coup of November 1799. Barras supported the change of government, but was...
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    President of the Council of Five Hundred. Soon afterwards, in the coup of 18 Brumaire, Napoleon led a group of grenadiers who drove the council from its...
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    which established the form of government known as the Consulate. The coup of 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799) had effectively given all power to Napoleon Bonaparte...
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    the coup d'État of 18 Brumaire neared, the motion that the "fatherland was in danger", and was expelled from the legislature on the 18th of Brumaire. Exiled...
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    Constitution of the Year VIII following the Napoleon Bonaparte-led Coup of 18 Brumaire. It lasted until 1814 when Napoleon Bonaparte was overthrown and...
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    Antoine Gros, Musée de la Légion d'honneur, Paris November 9: The coup d'état of 18 Brumaire begins. French troops loyal to Bonaparte occupy key points in...
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    the Roman Empire had combined to create a Caesarist coup d'etat for General Bonaparte on 18 Brumaire. Though he espoused adherence to revolutionary precedents...
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    private life during the Coup of 30 Prairial VII on 18 June 1799. Merlin de Douai had no share in Napoleon Bonaparte's 18 Brumaire coup. Under the Consulate...
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    had returned to France after more victories. After Bonaparte's coup d'état of 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799), Lafayette used the confusion caused by the...
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    Napoleon (category Leaders who took power by coup)
    Augereau to Paris to support a coup d'état that purged royalists from the legislative councils on 4 September—the Coup of 18 Fructidor. This left Barras...
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    to France in November 1798. The following year, he took part in the 18 Brumaire Coup (9 November 1799). Under the Empire, he enjoyed the confidence of Napoleon...
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  • days after Napoleon's seizure of power on 9 November 1799 in the Coup of 18 Brumaire, Serbelloni wrote to Vertemate Franchi, president of the Directory...
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    Napoleon III (category Leaders who took power by coup)
    duc de Morny, and a few close advisors quietly began to organise a coup d'état. They included minister of war Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud, as well...
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    of Oléron in 1799, he was set free by Napoleon Bonaparte after the 18 Brumaire Coup. In 1801, under the Consulate, he became councillor of state and director...
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  • very moment Napoléon Bonaparte took power as First Consul in the coup of 18 Brumaire, he was feared by his rivals, and keenly supported by the army. They...
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  • the regime introduced by Bonaparte after the coup of 18 Brumaire, he participated in the attempted coup led by general Malet in October 1812 and spent...
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