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Coup Of 18 Brumaire
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By 1799, the Directory, the five-man executive government established after the Thermidorian Reaction, was suffering from deep institutional malaise. Economic instability, particularly the fluctuating value of the assignat (paper currency)/), fueled popular unrest. Furthermore, military defeats in the Second Coalition War, though partially reversed by Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I)/)'s earlier successes, created a…
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Coup Of 18 Brumaire
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18 Brumaire (9 November 1799)
The initial phase involved securing the cooperation of the Councils. The Council of Ancients, spurred by the pretext of a supposed Jacobin plot, voted to transfer the legislative bodies to the Château de Saint-Cloud, placing them under the protective command of General Bonaparte/). The Directors were simultaneously coerced or resigned; only Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès…