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French Consulate
- NapoleonNapoleon Bonaparte was born Napoleone di Buonaparte on the 15th of August 1769, on the island of Corsica, to a family of Italian origin.
- Sénat conservateurThe Sénat conservateur was born in the wreckage of revolution. On the 13th of December 1799, just weeks after Napoleon Bonaparte toppled the Directory in the…
- TribunatThe Tribunat was born on the 1st of January 1800, the same day as the Constitution of Year VIII took effect and reshaped the French state.
- War of the Second CoalitionOn the 11th of June 1798, General Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers directed a landing of several thousand French troops at strategic locations around the island of…
- French ConsulateThe French Consulate was the government of France from the 9th of November 1799 to the 18th of May 1804, a span of less than five years that changed the…
- Concordat of 1801On the 15th of July 1801, in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII put their names to a document that neither of them entirely wanted.
- Coup of 18 BrumaireOn the 12th of March 1799, Habsburg-controlled Austria declared war on France. This declaration triggered emergency measures that allowed the pro-war Jacobin…
- Constitution of the Year VIIIOn the 18th of Brumaire, year VIII, which corresponds to the 9th of November 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte executed a coup d'état in Saint-Cloud.
- Corps législatifThe Constitution of the Year VIII took effect in 1799 and established a new Corps législatif. This body replaced the Council of Five Hundred from the…
- Roger DucosRoger Ducos cast his vote for the execution of King Louis XVI without appeal and without delay. That single act, recorded in the National Convention in the…
- Treaty of AmiensThe War of the Second Coalition began with early victories for the coalition forces in Egypt, Italy, and Germany. France soon turned the tide with decisive…
- Treaty of LunévilleThe Austrian army had been defeated by Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Marengo on the 14th of June 1800. Jean Victor Moreau then crushed the Austrians at…
- Emmanuel Joseph SieyèsEmmanuel Joseph Sieyès published a slim pamphlet in January 1789 and, within months, helped bring down a social order that had stood for centuries.
- Charles-François LebrunCharles-François Lebrun was born on the 19th of March 1739 in Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin, a small town in the Manche region of France, and he would live to see…
- Jean-Jacques-Régis de CambacérèsJean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès entered the world on the 18th of October 1753 in Montpellier. He was born into a family of legal nobility, though his…
- Plot of the rue Saint-NicaiseAn Italian engineer in Spanish service created the explosive device known as the infernal machine during the Siege of Antwerp in 1585.