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Out of the chaos of the Directory — the unstable government that replaced the Committee of Public Safety — emerged a general who had made his reputation suppres…
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# From First Consul to Emperor: How Napoleon Absorbed the Revolution While Dismantling It
Napoleon Bonaparte was not a counter-revolutionary. He didn't restore…
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# The Directory's Dysfunction: Five Years of Instability That Made a Coup Inevitable
The Directory (1795-1799) doesn't get much attention in popular histories…
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Nodenullvuild.com › node › #2983
In March 1815, Napoleon walked off a ship at Golfe-Juan with roughly a thousand men and announced he was taking France back. Twenty days later, King Louis XVIII…
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On the morning of May 2, 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte summoned his finance minister Charles Barbé-Marbois and told him that Louisiana was for sale.
The announcemen…
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Nodenullvuild.com › node › #1920
The French Revolution began in 1789 with three words: liberté, égalité, fraternité. It ended, in one reading, in 1804 when a man who had risen from Corsican m…
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