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    The Coup of 18 Fructidor, Year V (4 September 1797 in the French Republican Calendar), was a seizure of power in France by members of the Directory, the...
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    Fructidor follows the month of Thermidor and precedes the Sansculottides. The month is often used as a shorthand term for the Coup of 18 Fructidor. Like...
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    referring to earlier parliamentary coups, "The Constitution! You yourselves have destroyed it. You violated it on 18 Fructidor; you violated it on 22 Floreal;...
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    member Maximilien Robespierre. 1797, Coup of 18 Fructidor in France: The French Directory, with the support of the military, seizes power and ends the...
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    Cisrhenian Republic (category Former states and territories of North Rhine-Westphalia)
    of the Rhine under occupation by France, where the Coup of 18 Fructidor caused a decision to annex the area instead. At the beginning of the War of the...
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    Jean-Charles Pichegru (category Military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    royalist positions led to his loss of power and imprisonment in Cayenne, French Guiana during the Coup of 18 Fructidor in 1797. After escaping into exile...
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    Château de Lacoste (category Monuments historiques of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
    of Vaucluse and a native of Bonnieux, who, a victim of the Coup of 18 Fructidor, was deported to French Guiana where he died at Sinnamary in 1798. In...
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    provoked the 1851 self-coup to later proclaim himself emperor as Napoleon III. His coup, which proved popular as he sought the restoration of universal male suffrage...
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    Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (category Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Louis)
    speaking against the emancipation of slaves. He also lobbied in favour of strengthening the Navy. After the Coup of 18 Fructidor, Villaret was sentenced to deportation...
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    Lazare Carnot (category Members of the Chamber of Representatives (France))
    subsequent execution. He became one of the five initial members of the Directory but was ousted after the Coup of 18 Fructidor in 1797 and went into exile. Following...
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