Coup D'etat Definition

Coup D'etat Sentence Examples

• The coup d'etat seemed to have failed.

• He left Paris after the coup d'etat of 1851 and spent nine years in England.

• Concurrently with these undertakings, he steadily prepared to strengthen his position in the political life of France; and it will be well to notice the steps by which he ensured the defeat of the royalists in France and the propping up of the directorial system in the coup d'etat of Fructidor 1797.

• Of the generals, Murat, Berthier, Lannes and Leclerc were those who prepared the way for the coup d'etat.

• Stolypin indeed defended the coup d'etat in the Duma on the ground that the autocrat had merely altered what the autocrat had originally granted; but, while laying stress on the necessity for restoring order in the body politic, he announced a long programme of reforms, including agrarian measures, reform of local government and its extension in the frontier provinces, and state insurance of workmen.