The Fructidor coup purges the royalists
1797 · Event
When elections return a royalist majority, the French Directory annuls the results, deports opposition deputies to Guiana and calls in the army to hold Paris. The Republic saves itself by abandoning its own elections — a lesson Bonaparte files away for 1799.
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