French Revolution (2)
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Another
wave of executions began, termed the White Terror, as the
former hunters were themselves hunted down and put to death
for their excesses.
Two
more attempts at overthrowing order were made - those of
Germinal and Prairial - but each were quashed by the National
Guard.
A
new constitution now saw power in France being placed in
the hands of the Directory of Seven and this sparked a royalist
coup attempt that ended when Napoleon
Bonaparte sent his "whiff of
grapeshot" into the mob.
Two
attempted coups followed, Fructidor and Floreal, but it
was the Paul Barras-Roger Ducos-Napoleon
Bonaparte coup in 1799, that of Brumaire, that succeeded
in throwing out the corrupt and unpopular Directory.
Now ruled by the trio as Consuls there was just one more
twist in the revolution when Bonaparte eased his fellow
consuls out of the way and moved to rule France by himself.
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