The Coup D'etat happened on November 9, 1799. Napoleon had been a part of the group that had overthrown the French Directory. This directory was replaced with a three-member Consulate. Napoleon was the first consul. With Napoleon's defeat on against the Austrians, and drove them out of Italy, helped him and his power as the First Consul. Also with the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, the British agreed to make peace with England, which this treaty was to only last a year. Napoleon had centralized the government, instituted banking, education and he even supported science and the arts. One of Napoleon's greatest accomplishments was the Napoleonic Code, which had smoothed the French legal system and it even continues to form the foundation of the French Civil law today! Then in 1802 a constitutional amendment made Napoleon First Consul for life. Two years had gone by and then Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France.
Napoleon got was made made First Consul for life and then crowned him self emperor of France
Napoleon's Coup D'Etat happened on November 9, 1799
This is D' Allonville's army on the streets of France during Napoleon's Coup