Consulate
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) Consular government; term of office of a consul.
(2): (n.) The office of a consul.
(3): (n.) The jurisdiction or residence of a consul.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
Name given to the French Government from the fall of the Directory till the establishment of the Empire. At first there were three provisional consuls, Bonaparte, Siéyès, and Roger Ducos; then three consuls for ten years, Bonaparte, Cambacérès, and Lebrun, which was dissolved with the establishment of the Empire on the 20th May 1804.
