These were--the adjournment of the two councils until the middle of February next ensuing; and the deposition, meantime, of the whole authority of the state in a provisional _consulate_--the consuls being Napoleon Buonaparte, Sieyes, and Ducos.
Thus terminated the 19th of Brumaire.

One of the greatest revolutions on record in the history of the world was accomplished, by means of swords and bayonets unquestionably, but still without any effusion of blood.
From that hour the fate of France was determined.

The Abbe Sieyes, Talleyrand, and other eminent civilians, who had a hand in this great day's proceedings, had never doubted that, under the new state of things to which it should lead, they were to have the chief management of the civil concerns of France.

The ambition of Buonaparte, they questioned not, would be satisfied with the control of the armies and military establishments of the Republic.

But they reckoned without their host.
Next day the three consuls met in Paris; and a lengthened discussion arose touching the internal condition and foreign relations of France, and the measures not only of war, but of finance and diplomacy, to be resorted to.