1797 ⟶ Bonaparte Deploys Augereau to Paris for Coup Support
July 27: Bonaparte sends General Augereau to Paris as milita...
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🤝 Barras Seeks Military Support for Coup
June 24: The Director Paul Barras contacts General Hoche, seeking support for a coup d'état against the royalist majority in the two Councils.⟶
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🏛️ Coup d'état of 18 Fructidor: Directory Purges Royalist Deputies
September 4: Coup d'état of 18 Fructidor against the royalists in the legislature. Augereau arrests Barthélemy, Pichegru, and the leading royalist deputies.⟶
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🎖️ Bonaparte Returns to Paris for Public Acclaim
October 16: Bonaparte arrives in Paris for public celebrations.⟶
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🤝 Jourdan's Coup Offer Rejected by Bonaparte
November 7: General Jourdan proposes that Bonaparte join him in a Jacobin coup d'état against the Directory. Bonaparte refuses.⟶
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⚔️ Bonaparte's Coup: Military Occupation of Paris Begins
November 9: The coup d'état of 18 Brumaire begins. French troops loyal to Bonaparte occupy key points in Paris. Lucien Bonaparte, the president of the Council of Five Hundred, warns the deputies that a "terrorist" plot against the legislature has been discovered, and asks that the meetings of the Councils, scheduled for the next day, be moved for their security to the château of Saint-Cloud, some 10 kilometers west of Paris. Bonaparte is named Commander-in-chief of the army in Paris.⟶
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