1797 ⟶ Hoche's Army Approaches Paris, Violating Constitutional Limits
July 17: The army of Hoche arrives within three leagues (see...
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⚔️ National Assembly Orders Army of Volunteers
June 8: The Assembly orders the raising of an army of twenty thousand volunteers to be camped outside Paris.⟶
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🛡️ Assembly Orders Army Units Away from Paris
July 15: The Assembly votes to send regular army units, whose officers largely support Lafayette, far outside the city.⟶
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⚔️ Bonaparte Appointed Commander of the Army of the Interior
October 26: Bonaparte is named commander in chief of the Army of the Interior.⟶
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🛡️ Hoche's Army Approaches Paris, Violating Constitutional Limits
July 17: The army of Hoche arrives within three leagues (see also: Units of measurement in France before the French Revolution) of Paris, a violation of the Constitution. The royalist Councils protest.⟶
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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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