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
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, then forming the government of the First French Republic, with support from the military. 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. 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, staged the coup d'état that annulled many of the previous election's results and ousted the monarchists from the legislature.