2-687-765 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Bonaparte at the Council of the Five Hundred - St. Cloud, November 10, 1799 (19th Brumaire)', (1896). Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) led a group of grenadiers who drove the Council from its chambers in St Cloud, Paris, and installed him as leader of France as its First Consul. Engraving after the painting made in 1840 by François Bouchot. From Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II, by William Milligan Sloane. [The Century Co., Macmillan & Co., Limited, New York & London, 1896]