At this point, France was still at war with Austria and Britain, wars that France ended up winning largely thanks to a little corporal named Napoleon Bonaparte. The war was backdrop to a bunch of coups and counter-coups that I won't get into right now because they were very complicated, but the last coup that we'll talk about, in 1799, established Napoleon Bonaparte as the first Consul of France. And it granted him almost unlimited executive power under yet another constitution. And when he was declared first Consul of France, Napoleon proclaimed, Citizens, the Revolution is established on the principles with which it began. It is over. By which he presumably meant that France's government had gone all the way from here to here to here. As with the American Revolution, it's easy to conclude that France's revolution wasn't all that revolutionary.