French Consulate

The Consulate (French: Le Consulat) was the top-level Government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of Brumaire on 10 November 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire on 18 May 1804.

During this time, Napoleon Bonaparte, as First Consul (Premier consul), created himself as the head of a more authoritarian, autocratic, and centralized republican government in France while not declaring himself sole ruler.^[1]

Napoleon brought authoritarian personal rule which has been viewed as military dictatorship.^[2]

French Consulate Media

5f Bonaparte Premier consul - AN XI - 1802
Constitution of the year VIII and later the French Empire
Portrait of First Consul Bonaparte, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Portrait of Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien, by Jean-Michel Moreau
Gros - First Consul Bonaparte (Detail)
Portrait d'Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès en médaillon
Pierre Roger Ducos par Edme Quenedey
Gros - First Consul Bonaparte (Detail)
Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès
Charles François Lebrun prince architrésorier de l'Empire

References

↑ Robert B. Holtman, The Napoleonic Revolution (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981), 31.
↑ Jones, Colin (1994). The Cambridge Illustrated History of France (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 193–94. ISBN 0-521-43294-4.

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[1] Robert B. Holtman, The Napoleonic Revolution (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981), 31.

[2] Jones, Colin (1994). The Cambridge Illustrated History of France (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 193–94. ISBN 0-521-43294-4.

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