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Military coups in France

  • Malet coup of 1812Claude François de Malet was born in 1754. He distinguished himself in the French Revolutionary Wars and slowly became disenchanted with Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • Coup of 18 FructidorThe April 1797 legislative elections returned a royalist majority to France's Corps législatif. This outcome threatened the existence of the First French…
  • 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…