num_pages: 153
description: Late-20th-century research has suggested that the Bonapartist dictatorship was by no means a foregone conclusion the inevitable outcome of a corrupt and discredited revolutionary regime. Historians now seek to gain a greater awareness of the difficulties faced by the Directory (as the constitutional system was called after 1795) in steering a middle course between Royalism and Jacobinism and also a greater recognition of its achievements. It is now a widely-held view that by the time Napolean crowned himself Emperor in 1804 the Revolution was effectively over.
language: English
title: Napoleon Comes To Power: Democracy And Dictatorship In Revolutionary France, 1795-1804
publisher: University of Wales Press