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    Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras (French: [bara:s]; 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829), commonly known as Paul Barras, was a French politician...
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    named for the Thermidorian Reaction in 1794, when its members—led by Paul Barras, Jean-Lambert Tallien and Joseph Fouché — ousted Maximilien Robespierre...
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    Sobhraj in the miniseries The Serpent (2021). Rahim has since portrayed Paul Barras in the period film Napoleon (2023) and has a role in the Sony Spider-Man...
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  • Antoinette beheaded by the guillotine. Later that year, Revolutionary leader Paul Barras has Napoleon manage the Siege of Toulon; he storms the city and repels...
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    the boy's room for six months until Paul Barras visited the prison after the 9th Thermidor (27 July 1794). Barras's account of the visit describes the...
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    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...
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    closely involved in the "Terror" retained their positions. They included Paul Barras, later chief executive of the French Directory, and Joseph Fouché, director...
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    President was Louis-Jérôme Gohier. The leading figure of the Directory was Paul Barras, the only director to serve throughout the Directory. Political parties...
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  • frontman, musician, and former MMA fighter Kris Barras. Barras grew up influenced by his father, Paul Barras, who was also a musician himself. In August 2014...
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    return to the ancien régime. Three of the five members of the Directory, Paul Barras, Jean-François Rewbell and Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, with...
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    the Thermidorian Convention. Prominent figures of Thermidor include Paul Barras, Jean-Lambert Tallien, and Joseph Fouché. Conspiracies against Robespierre...
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    prices for grain and other food products. Two Muscadins in Paris (1795) Paul Barras in the ceremonial dress of a French Director January 19: French army...
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  • Barras is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Barras (1914–1986), Australian cricketer Charlotte Barras (born 1982), English...
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    Directory were the following: Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, a member of a minor noble family from Provence, Barras had been a revolutionary...
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    Inconcevables, Amazones, Muguets, Gandins… (in French) Letter from de Barras accepting the post of Director De Barras at the National Library of France...
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    (1795–1862), married Count Felix de Narbonne-Pelet in 1815; Issue by Paul Barras: Francis Barras, born in 1797, who died at 1833; had illegitimate issue. Ouvrard...
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    Beauharnais had affairs with several leading political figures, including Paul Barras. In 1795, she met Napoleon Bonaparte, six years her junior, and became...
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    Paul Barras (Thermidorians)...
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    Antoine de Saint-Just Georges Couthon Pierre-François-Joseph Robert Paul Barras Augustin Robespierre Jacques-Louis David Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Louis-Michel...
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    office, with the help of the Directory's only surviving original member, Paul Barras, also an anti-Jacobin, successfully rid himself of the other three then-sitting...
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    June 1799 Preceded by Paul Barras Succeeded by Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès In office 25 February 1798 – 26 May 1798 Preceded by Paul Barras Succeeded by Jean-François...
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    royalists in Paris declared a rebellion against the National Convention. Paul Barras, a leader of the Thermidorian Reaction, knew of Bonaparte's military...
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    Robespierre   General Napoleon Bonaparte President of the Directory Paul Barras (from 1795) Strength 1794: 1,169,000 Casualties and losses 94,000 soldiers...
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    of the government which immediately delegated Paul Barras to resolve the complicated situation; Barras immediately asked Buonaparte for help who dispersed...
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    Undeclared War with France, 1797–1801. Charles Scribner's Sons. Eclov, Jon Paul (2013). Informal Alliance: Royal Navy And U.S. Navy Co-Operation Against...
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    The Convention dismissed Menou from the command and ordered Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras to take over the defence of the Convention. Young General...
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    the early morning of 10 Thermidor, the forces of the Convention under Paul Barras burst in and succeeded in taking most of them alive, except Le Bas, who...
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  • put down by Napoleon. Barras helps Napoleon win promotion to Commander of the Interior October 15: At the home of Paul Barras, a Directory member, Napoleon...
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    by: National Guard (loyalists) Sans-culottes Commanders and leaders Paul Barras Jean-Lambert Tallien Joseph Fouché Pierre-Louis Bentabole Charles-André...
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    obtained most of the proceeds. In 1798, Sade unsuccessfully petitioned Paul Barras, a leader of the Directory regime, to have his name removed from the...
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