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.