Editing Consul (section)

===French Republic 1799–1804===
{{main article|French Consulate}}
[[File:3consuls.jpg|thumb|right|220px|A portrait of the three consuls, [[Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès]], [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]] and [[Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance|Charles-François Lebrun]] (left to right)]]

After [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] [[18 Brumaire|staged a coup]] against the [[French Directory|Directory]] government in November 1799, the French Republic adopted a [[Constitution of the Year VIII|constitution]] which conferred executive powers upon three consuls, elected for a period of ten years. In reality, the first consul, Bonaparte, dominated his two colleagues and held supreme power, soon making himself consul for life (1802) and eventually, in 1804, [[First French Empire|emperor]].

The office was held by:

* [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], [[Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès]], [[Roger Ducos]], provisional consuls (10 November – 12 December 1799)
* [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] (first consul), [[Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès|Jean-Jacques Cambacérès]] (second consul), [[Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance|Charles-François Lebrun]] (third consul), consuls (12 December 1799 – 18 May 1804)