On 9 thermidor Year 2, Robespierre fell; on18 brumaire Year 8, a coup d'état brought Bonaparte to power. This book demonstrates that the interval between these two momentous events was also of crucial importance.
This is the third of a three-volume series books on the French Revolution, which aims to provide an up-to-date synthesis of the latest research and to highlight recent controversies.
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... French Directory . Hoche , at the head of a hundred thousand men , on the shores of the ocean , in Designs of the La Vendée and Brittany , burned Directory and with the desire to eclipse the great Hoche against exploits of Napoleon and ...
... French directory " wanted " in direct violation of the treaties . " Instructions a loan " from the United States , which they had no also were given making it an " indispensable con - authority to grant ; and added , " the directory ...
... French and Swiss Armies . Acceptance of the Constitution by the lesser Cantons . Insurrections in the Val- lais . Despotic Conduct of the French Directory . Embassy of Rapinat in Switzerland . Violences committed by the French ...
... French and Swiss Armies . Acceptance of the Conftitution by the leffer Cantons . Infurrections in the Val- lais . Defpotic Conduct of the French Directory . Embaffy of Rapinat in Switzerland . Violences committed by the French Commiary ...
... French Directory . InfurreFion in the Pays - de - Vaud . Interference of the French . March of General Menard . Revolution in the Pays - de - Vaud . Negotiations between the Government of Berne and the French Directory . Seditious ...
... French minister here , and by the French Directory.1 The American minister , Charles Cotesworth Pinckney , had been ordered to leave France , and that government had authorized depredations upon our commerce . 2. Congress appointed ...