Coup of 18 Brumaire
1799 coup in Revolutionary France that brought Napoleon to power / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Eighteenth Brumaire" redirects here. For Karl Marx's essay about the French coup of 1851, see The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.
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.
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Date | 9 November 1799 |
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Location | Château de Saint-Cloud |
Participants | Napoleon Bonaparte, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Charles-Maurice Talleyrand, Roger Ducos, Paul Barras, Lucien Bonaparte, Joseph Bonaparte, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, Charles François Lebrun and others |
Outcome | Coup successful. Consulate established; adoption of a constitution under which the First Consul, a position Bonaparte was to hold, had the most power in the French government |
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