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    The Coup of 18 Fructidor, Year V (4 September 1797 in the French Republican Calendar), was a seizure of power in France by members of the Directory, the...
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    Fructidor follows the month of Thermidor and precedes the Sansculottides. The month is often used as a shorthand term for the Coup of 18 Fructidor. Like...
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    referring to earlier parliamentary coups, "The Constitution! You yourselves have destroyed it. You violated it on 18 Fructidor; you violated it on 22 Floreal;...
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    Cisrhenian Republic (category Former states and territories of North Rhine-Westphalia)
    of the Rhine under occupation by France, where the Coup of 18 Fructidor caused a decision to annex the area instead. At the beginning of the War of the...
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    member Maximilien Robespierre. 1797, Coup of 18 Fructidor in France: The French Directory, with the support of the military, seizes power and ends the...
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    Jean-Charles Pichegru (category Military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    royalist positions led to his loss of power and imprisonment in Cayenne, French Guiana during the Coup of 18 Fructidor in 1797. After escaping into exile...
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    provoked the 1851 self-coup to later proclaim himself emperor as Napoleon III. His coup, which proved popular as he sought the restoration of universal male suffrage...
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    Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (category Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Louis)
    speaking against the emancipation of slaves. He also lobbied in favour of strengthening the Navy. After the Coup of 18 Fructidor, Villaret was sentenced to deportation...
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    Révellière-Lépeaux which quickly gained popularity following the Coup of 18 Fructidor in 1797. After the Coup of 30 Prairial VII and De La Révellière's resignation...
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    Lazare Carnot (category Members of the Chamber of Representatives (France))
    subsequent execution. He became one of the five initial members of the Directory but was ousted after the Coup of 18 Fructidor in 1797 and went into exile. Following...
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    Château de Lacoste (category Monuments historiques of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
    of Vaucluse and a native of Bonnieux, who, a victim of the Coup of 18 Fructidor, was deported to French Guiana where he died at Sinnamary in 1798. In...
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  • English language usage in 1799 in a translation of Lazare Carnot's letter on the Coup of 18 Fructidor. During the French Revolution, conservative forces...
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  • ship of the line of the French Navy. She was started in Rochefort from 1793, and renamed to Dix-huit fructidor in 1798 in honour of the Coup of 18 fructidor...
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    Napoleon (redirect from Napoleon of France)
    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 and his...
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    body of plotting against the Revolution and moved quickly to annul the elections and arrest the royalists in what was known as the Coup of 18 Fructidor. To...
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    William Joseph Chaminade (category Founders of Catholic religious communities)
    priests completed their reconciliation with his help. After the Coup of 18 Fructidor by the French Directory in 1797, he fled the country and found refuge...
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    with the coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799. Members of the Directory itself planned the coup, indicating clearly the failing power of the Directory...
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    Bourdon belonged to the party of Clichyens, composed of crypto-Royalists, against whom the directors used the Coup of 18 Fructidor. Bourdon was arrested and...
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    (Clichyens)       Left-wing (Montagnards)       Other (Maraisards) After the Coup of 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799), Barras, Ducos, and Sieyès resigned. Moulin...
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    Carpentras (category Communes of Vaucluse)
    particularly during the rule of the French Directory. After the 'Anti-Royalist' September 4, 1797 Coup of 18 Fructidor, on October 22, 1797, counter-revolutionaries...
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    the Coup of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797). Barras was alleged to have dozens of mistresses and male lovers.[citation needed] The corruption of his administration...
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    Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (category Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Bourbon Restoration)
    well-regarded speech in the council in defence of the principles of religious liberty, but the Coup of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) drove him back into private...
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    became king. In Boston, Louis Philippe learned of the coup of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) and of the exile of his mother to Spain. He and his brothers then...
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    Lyon (redirect from Capital of gastronomy)
    the French Directory appeared and days after the 4 September 1797 Coup of 18 Fructidor, a Directory's commissioner was assassinated in Lyon. The city became...
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    Hilarion Paul Puget de Barbantane (category French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    reinstated in rank in 1795 after the Reign of Terror ended. He reappeared during the Coup of 18 Fructidor as one of the unemployed generals surrounding Pierre...
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  • 1798 French legislative election (category 1798 events of the French Revolution)
    of the Law of 22 Floréal Year VI which saw 106 Montagnards lose their seats by decree of the Council of Five Hundred. After the Coup of 18 Fructidor Year...
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    Pichegru Conspiracy (category 1800s coups d'état and coup attempts)
    for his loyalty to the royalists in the Coup of 18 Fructidor, Pichegru made contact with Cadoudal in London of 1803. Cadoudal had a bitter hatred for Napoleon...
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  • 1797 French legislative election (category 1797 events of the French Revolution)
    the election, fearing a return to the monarchy, the Coup of 18 Fructidor removed all those accused of being "pro-Monarchist" or those who had supported...
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  • Méhée de La Touche (category Newspaper editors of the French Revolution)
    was also used in Le Journal des Hommes Libres. In 1797, after the Coup of 18 Fructidor, he was convicted to be transported to Cayenne, together with Charles...
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    Fructidor Year III (22 August 1795) and approved by plebiscite on 6 September. Its preamble is the Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man and of...
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