No, his coup was against the Constitutional government established as a result of the French Revolution called the Directory. It made him the First Consul of France. He was later named First Consul for Life and crowned himsef Emperor of the French on 2 December 1804.
In the early 1800s, the ruler of France at the time of the Louisiana Purchase was Napoleon. Deeply embroiled in war in Europe at the time, Napoleon was in more need of money than of troublesome and distant colonial land of dubious value.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The politics of Ancient China is monarchy. They promote their emperor through festivities.
Napoléon Bonaparte - commonly referred to as "Bonaparte" through the revolutionary period, and as Napoléon during the Empire.
Napoleon created the Consulate in 1799 and was First Consul. Later he was made First Consul for life through a plebiscite. In 1804 he crowned himself Emperor of the French.
Through military dictatorship and civil law.
In Europe this would most likely be Napoleon III. He named himself emperor and got many European nations involved in the Crimean War just so that he could get revenge on the countries who beat his uncle (Napoleon Bonaparte). He then helped unify Italy but broke promises with Cavour when it was time for him to pull the French out of Rome. If you don't like that, then maybe Bismarck? He did good things (unify Germany) but did so through wars with Austria and France.
Through the Concordat of 1801: the Concordat of 1801 is a reflection of an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and restored some of its civil status. While the Concordat restored some ties to the papacy, it was largely in favor of the state; the balance of church-state relations had tilted firmly in Napoleon Bonaparte's favour. As a part of the Concordat, he presented another set of laws called the Organic Articles.
Pretty big difference because the real French royals fought through out most of the 1800's to retain the monarchy. They had to deal with Napoleon and his son and nephew for control. Napoleon and his successors weren't actually royalty even though they acted like were and even though the French for some odd reason treated them like they were. In reality they were despotic militaristic politicians. France went back and forth multiple times in the 1800's between having a monarchy and not, whereas Britain maintained the monarchy (in a constitutional role) through out the 1800's till now just fine; which is probably why Britain has (since Oliver Cromwell) avoided a tyrant.
Napoleon was able to stabilize France internally for some time. He gave the people to code of Napoleon which essentially embodied the revolutions. Yet through his own personal goal of world domination used up France and was eventually defeated leaving France in a worst time or almost the same as decades before.
In 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte returned from the Egyptian Campaign. Successful in suppressing uprisings against the government and victorious in his Italian campaigns, Bonaparte was known as an excellent strategist who had gained the respect of his men through bravery and courage under fire, meticulous planning and an unconventional approach to warfare. Despite defeats in Egypt, Napoleon returned to a hero's reception. Outmanoeuvring the government and supported by his army he collaborated in a coup d'état to overthrow the Directory and establish the Consulate. By 1800 Napoleon had become the First Consul of France, and was now in a position of total power.
Professors and proffesionals They say that France was changed after Napoleon in a way that could have changed most of the world and there was a huge crisis after him and thousands of people did die while Napoleon was alive.