9 November 1799: Napoleon Bonaparte took the power in France

On 10 November 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte became the First Consul of France.

The First Consul of France was the top-level Government of France, which was established after the fall of the Directory.  On 9 November 1799, the Coup of 18 Brumaire took place. Then Napoleon  Bonaparte gained the power after a bloodless Coup d'état.

  

What preceded

French military disasters in 1798 and 1799 had shaken the Directory, and eventually shattered it in November 1799. On the morning of 18 Brumaire, Lucien Bonaparte falsely persuaded the Councils that a Jacobin coup was at hand in Paris. Napoleon was charged with the safety of the two Councils and given command of all available local troops. 

Later that morning, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and Roger Ducos  resigned as Directors. The now former 1797–1799 2nd Minister of Foreign Affairs Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, a close ally of Napoleon, pressured Director Paul Barras to do the same.

The resignation of three of the five Directors on day one of the coup prevented a quorum and thus practically abolished the five-man Directory, but the two Jacobin Directors, Louis-Jérôme Gohier and
Jean-François-Auguste Moulin, continued to protest furiously. Both men were arrested on day two by Napoleon's ally General Jean Victor Marie Moreau, and by the following day, they were compelled to give up their resistance. 

Napoleon seized French parliamentary and military power in a two-fold coup d'état, forcing the sitting directors of the government to resign. On the night of the 19 Brumaire (10 November 1799) a remnant of the Council of Ancients abolished the Constitution of the Year III, ordained the consulate, and legalised the coup d'Etat in favour of Bonaparte with the Constitution of the Year VIII.

10 November 1799 marked thus the start of the power of Napoleon Bonaparte. A reign which would have lasted until 1815. More about Napoléon Bonaparte on this page of the blog link. 

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