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...

fructus 'fruit'. Fructidor is the third month of the summer quarter (mois d'été). By the Gregorian calendar, Fructidor starts on either August 18 or August 19...

"The Constitution! You yourselves have destroyed it. You violated it on 18 Fructidor; you violated it on 22 Floreal; you violated it on 30 Prairial. It no...

Left Bank of the Rhine under occupation by France, where the Coup of 18 Fructidor caused a decision to annex the area instead. Yvonne Kafka: Das Wendejahr...

five initial members of the Directory but was ousted after the Coup of 18 Fructidor in 1797 and went into exile. Following Napoleon's rise to power, Carnot...

Ladebat was President of the Council of Ancients at the time of the 18 Fructidor coup against the new moderate majority on the Councils. He was later...

colonies and slavery, and harbouring Royalist sympathies. After the Coup of 18 Fructidor, Villaret was to be deported to Cayenne but went into hiding long enough...

power and imprisonment in Cayenne, French Guiana during the Coup of 18 Fructidor in 1797. After escaping into exile in London and joining the staff of...

In office, Rewbell dealt with the Royalist attempted coup d'état (The 18 Fructidor), as well as the Conspiracy of the Equals; he engineered the annexation...

(Clichyens)       Left-wing (Montagnards)       Other (Maraisards) After the Coup of 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799), Barras, Ducos, and Sieyès resigned. Moulin and...

General Augereau, a Jacobin, to repress their movement in the Coup of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797). Barras was alleged to have dozens of mistresses and...

administrator. After du Pont's house was sacked by a mob during the events of 18 Fructidor V (4 September 1797), he, his sons and their families immigrated to the...

Victory"; turned against Robespierre on 9 Thermidor; a Director; ousted in 18 Fructidor coup. Louis Philippe, duc de Chartres Eldest son of the Duke of Orleans;...

Révellière-Lépeaux which quickly gained popularity following the Coup of 18 Fructidor in 1797. After the Coup of 30 Prairial VII and De La Révellière's resignation...

Rochefort from 1793, and renamed to Dix-huit fructidor in December 1797 in honour of the Jacobin Coup of 18 Fructidor, as she was still on the stocks, but reverted...

usage in 1799 in a translation of Lazare Carnot's letter on the Coup of 18 Fructidor. During the French Revolution, conservative forces (especially within...

deputy 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...

elections and arrest the royalists in what was known as the Coup of 18 Fructidor. To support the coup, General Lazare Hoche, then commander of the Army...

composed of crypto-Royalists, against whom the directors used the Coup of 18 Fructidor. Bourdon was arrested and deported to French Guiana, and died soon after...

when he became king. In Boston, Louis Philippe learned of the coup of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) and of the exile of his mother to Spain. He and his...

French Directory appeared and days after the 4 September 1797 Coup of 18 Fructidor, a Directory's commissioner was assassinated in Lyon. The city became...

purged royalists from the legislative councils on 4 September—the Coup of 18 Fructidor. This left Barras and his republican allies in control again but more...

1794), and left it in exile again after the republican coup d'état of 18 Fructidor of the year V (4 September 1797). In 1798, Duport died from tuberculosis...

republican from 1795, he backed the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) and the following one on 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799). During the Consulat...

Directory felt strong enough to purge the legislature in the Coup of 18 Fructidor. Bonaparte, who had no intention of implicating himself directly, instead...

intervention in Egypt "to truly destroy England". September 4: Coup d'état of 18 Fructidor against the royalists in the legislature. Augereau arrests Barthélemy...

supporter after Thermidor. He died while imprisoned during the Coup of 18 Fructidor (1797). In the twentieth century, "Saint-Just" was used as a pseudonym...

Revolution. The First Republic lasted until the declaration of the First Empire on 18 May 1804 under Napoléon Bonaparte, although the form of government changed...

council in defence of the principles of religious liberty, but the Coup of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) drove him back into private life. It was at this period...

protesting against the 18 Fructidor invasion of the chamber by Pierre François Augereau, he was imprisoned until the Napoleon Bonaparte's 18 Brumaire coup (9...