French Consulate facts for kids

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.

Napoleon brought authoritarian personal rule which has been viewed as military dictatorship.

Images for kids

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  Constitution of the year VIII and later the French Empire

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  Portrait of First Consul Bonaparte, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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  Portrait of Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien, by Jean-Michel Moreau

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In Spanish: Consulado (Francia) para niños