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coup in Revolutionary France that brought Napoleon to power

"Eighteenth Brumaire" redirects here. For Karl Marx's essay about the French coup of , see The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.

The Coup of 18 Brumaire brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of the French First Republic.

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In the view of most historians, it ended the French Revolution and would soon lead to the coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French. This bloodless coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate.

This occurred on 9 November , which was 18 Brumaire, Year VIII, under the short-lived French Republican calendar system.

Context

After Habsburg-controlled Austria declared war on France on 12 March ,^[1] emergency measures were adopted and the pro-war Jacobin faction, the Montagnards, triumphed in the French legislative election held in April.

With Napoleon and the republic's best army engaged in the French invasion o