Leading the Directory and Raising Napoleon to Power

Paul Barras

A French military officer and politician from a noble family in Provence. During the French Revolution, he became a member of the National Convention, a representative on mission, and a central figure among the Thermidorians, rising rapidly to power after the downfall of Robespierre. During the royalist 13 Vendémiaire uprising in 1795, he commanded government forces in Paris and appointed Napoleon Bonaparte as commander of the artillery. Subsequently, as one of the five Directors of the Directory from 1795 to 1799, he held actual power and became the leading figure representing the government. Politically, he shifted from the Republicans to the Thermidorians, maintaining power by suppressing both royalists and Jacobins according to the situation. Deprived of power by Napoleon in the Coup of 18 Brumaire in 1799, he subsequently fell from political grace.

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Year	Paul Barras
1755	Birth of Paul Barras (Period: June 30, 1755, Location: Fox-Amphoux (Fox-Amphoux, present-day Var, France))
1771	Enlistment in the French Royal Army (Paul Barras, Age: 15 years old, Period: 1771, Location: France)
1776	Participation in the Expedition to India (Paul Barras, Age: 20 years old, Period: 1776–1778, Location: India, Pondicherry)
1780	Second Anglo-Mysore War (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1780–1784, Location: Southern India, Pondicherry, etc.)
1782	Participation in Suffren's Fleet (Paul Barras, Age: 26 years old, Period: 1782–1783, Location: Indian Ocean, around Southern India)
1789	Participation in the Administration of the Var Department (Paul Barras, Age: 33 years old, Period: 1789–1792, Location: Var department) French Revolution and the Storming of the Bastille (Age: 34 years old, Period: July 14, 1789, Location: Paris)
1791	Marriage (Paul Barras and Marie-Pélagie Templier, Age: 35 years old, Period: January 12–13, 1791, Location: Fox-Amphoux, Church of Saint-Blaise)
1793	Vote for the Execution of Louis XVI (Paul Barras, Age: 37 years old, Period: January 1793, Location: Paris, National Convention) Meeting Napoleon at Toulon (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1793, Location: Toulon) Suppression of the Marseille Rebellion (Age: 37 years old, Period: June–August 1793, Location: Marseille, Southern France) Recapture of Toulon (Age: 38 years old, Period: December 1793, Location: Toulon)
1794	Arrest of the Robespierrist Faction (Age: 39 years old, Period: July 28, 1794, Location: Paris, around the Town Hall)
1795	Activities as the Principal Leader of the Directory (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1795–1799, Location: Paris) Appointment as President of the National Convention (Paul Barras, Age: 39 years old, Period: February 4–19, 1795, Location: Paris) Uprising of 13 Vendémiaire (Age: 40 years old, Period: October 5, 1795, Location: Paris, around the Tuileries Palace) Establishment of the Directory (Age: 40 years old, Period: November 2, 1795, Location: Paris)
1796	French Revolutionary Wars: Italian Campaign (Age: 40 years old, Period: 1796–1797, Location: Northern Italy, Austria direction) Babeuf's Conspiracy (Age: 40 years old, Period: 1796, Location: Paris) Involvement in Napoleon's Appointment as Commander of the Army of Italy (Paul Barras, Age: 40 years old, Period: 1796, Location: Paris) Involvement in the Marriage of Joséphine and Napoleon (Age: 40 years old, Period: March 1796, Location: Paris)
1799	Retirement at Grosbois Castle and Exile (Paul Barras, Age: 43 years old, Period: 1799–1814, Location: Grosbois, Brussels, Rome, Montpellier, etc.) Fall from Power in the Directory (Paul Barras, Age: 44 years old, Period: November 1799, Location: Paris)
1815	Final Years after the Second Restoration (Paul Barras, Age: 59 years old, Period: 1815–1829, Location: Paris)
1829	Death of Paul Barras (Age: 73 years old, Period: January 29, 1829)

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Napoleonic Era	Napoleon Bonaparte Lazare Carnot Joachim Murat Michel Ney Louis-Nicolas Davout Jean Lannes André Masséna Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Joseph Fouché Jacques Necker Paul Barras
Victorian Era	Alexandrina Victoria Prince Albert Benjamin Disraeli William Gladstone Robert Peel Henry John Temple Florence Nightingale Charles Dickens Mary Ann Evans
Music	Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Schubert Hector Berlioz Frédéric Chopin Franz Liszt Wilhelm Richard Wagner Johannes Brahms Charles Gounod

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