Coup of 18 Fructidor

Coup of 18 Fructidor
	Part of the French Revolution
	; Acting for the coup's leaders, General Charles-Pierre Augereau stormed the Tuileries Palace to arrest Charles Pichegru and others accused of plotting a counter-revolution.
Date	4 September 1797
Location	Paris, France
Result	Republican victory: End of the monarchist majority in the legislative chambers; Suppression of the Clichy Club; Exile, deportation or imprisonment of several monarchists;
Belligerents
French Directory	Royalists in the; Council of Ancients; and the; Council of Five Hundred
Commanders and leaders
Political:; Jean-François Reubell; Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux; Paul Barras Military:; Charles-Pierre Augereau; Lazare Hoche	François-Marie Barthélemy; Charles Pichegru; François Barbé-Marbois
Strength
30,000 soldiers	216 royalist deputies[citation needed]
Casualties and losses
	65 deputies deported to French Guiana; 18 imprisoned; 3 runaways;

The Coup of 18 Fructidor, Year V (4 September 1797 in the French Republican Calendar), was a seizure of power in France by members of the Directory, the government of the French First Republic, with support from the French military.^[2] The coup was provoked by the results of elections held months earlier, which had given the majority of seats in the country's Corps législatif (Legislative body) to royalist candidates, threatening a restoration of the monarchy and a return to the ancien régime.^[3] Three of the five members of the Directory, Paul Barras, Jean-François Rewbell and Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, with support of foreign minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord,^[4] staged the coup d'état that annulled many of the previous election's results and ousted the monarchists from the legislature.^[5]

^ ^a ^b "coup d'État du 18 fructidor an V". Larousse (in French). Retrieved 11 June 2021.
^ Doyle, William (2002). The Oxford History of the French Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 330. ISBN 978-0-19-925298-5.
^ Manière, Fabienne. "4 septembre 1797 - Coup d'État de Fructidor". Horodote (in French). Retrieved 11 June 2021.
^ Bernard, pp. 193–194.
^ Hall Stewart, John (1951). A Documentary Survey of the French Revolution (adapted). New York: Macmillan.