Coup of 18 Fructidor

The 18th Fructidor V is a date of the Revolutionary calendar, which was during the French Revolution. The 18th Fructidor V corresponds to 4 September 1797.

Ahead of the 18th Fructidor the Republicans of the Board were increasingly coming under pressure as the anti- Republican forces in France had gradually newly formed and achieved in the elections of March 1797 a great victory.

Then planned the Republicans on the Board - Paul de Barras, Jean François Reubell and Louis -Marie de La Révellière - Lépeaux - a coup, where they counted with the help of the Jacobins. Members of the Board called on the returned from the first Italian campaign, Napoleon Bonaparte, introduce reliable troops from Italy. Napoleon came the request of the Board to support and sent by General Charles Pierre François Augereau. The General received the appointment as commander of the 17th Army Division, which was responsible for Paris.

On 18 Fructidor V of the coup was carried out: In 49 departments the previous election results were annulled, thereby lost 177 mostly royalist -minded MPs their seats. Board member François Barthélemy was banished, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, who had not supported the coup, to arrest could escape in time. The two contrasting directors were replaced by Merlin de Douai and Nicolas -Louis François de Neufchâteau.

The legal pressure of the last elections was banned, the directorial however, had been clearly violated by this measure. As a result, there was again in Paris, a climate of terror. Only the consequences of the denunciations were not, such as under Robespierre, the guillotine, but the deportation in non-European areas where the deportees had to do mostly heavy physical work - the so-called "dry guillotine "; many were deported ( in the Pacific such as New Caledonia) in the areas annexed by France.

• French Revolution
• Coup
• 1797