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Barras, Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de (pōl fräNswä` zhäN nēkōlä`, vēkôNt` də bärä`), 1755–1829, French revolutionary. Although of a noble family, he joined the Jacobins Jacobins (jăk`əbĭnz), political club of the French Revolution .
..... Click the link for more information. in the Revolution and was a member of the Convention. He participated in the reprisals against counterrevolutionaries in Toulon after the recapture of the city from the British (1793). Having turned against the revolutionary dictator Maximilien Robespierre Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore (mäksēmēlyăN` märē` ēzēdôr` rôbĕspyĕr`)
..... Click the link for more information. , Barras was a leader of the coup against him on 9 Thermidor Thermidor (thûr`mĭdôr, Fr. tĕrmēdôr`), 11th month of the French Revolutionary calendar .
..... Click the link for more information. (July 27, 1794). As commander of Paris, he suppressed a royalist uprising on 13 Vendémiaire Vendémiaire (väNdāmyĕr`), first month of the French Revolutionary calendar . 13 Vendémiaire of the year iv (Oct.
..... Click the link for more information. (Oct. 5, 1795) by turning the troops over to a young officer, Napoleon Bonaparte. Subsequently, Barras became (1795) a member of the Directory Directory, group of five men who held the executive power in France according to the constitution of the year III (1795) of the French Revolution . They were chosen by the new legislature, by the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients; each year one
..... Click the link for more information. . He was notorious for his corruption and ostentation. During Napoleon's coup of 18 Brumaire Brumaire (brümâr`), second month of the French Revolutionary calendar . The coup of 18 (actually 18–19) Brumaire (Nov.
..... Click the link for more information. (Nov. 9, 1799), Barras consented to resign from the Directory, thus contributing to Napoleon's success. After the coup, he lost prominence.