Stops counting votes;
Declares someone a winner who didn’t get the most votes; or
Allows someone to stay in power who didn’t win the election.
Definitions: A coup or coup d'état (/ˌkuː deɪˈtɑː/ listen (help. · info); French: [ku deta], literally "blow of state"; plural: coups d'état, pronounced like the singular form; also known simply as an ousting, overthrow, takeover, or putsch) is the removal of an existing government from power, usually through violent means.
Coup d’état, also called a coup, the sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government by a small group. The chief prerequisite for a coup is control of all or part of the armed forces, the police, and other military elements.
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France Coup history
1567 – Surprise of Meaux: Failed plot by Louis, Prince of Condé to kidnap King Charles IX, causing the Second French War of Religion
10 August 1792 – Insurrection of 10 August 1792: The Paris Commune rallied Republican fédérés and National Guard troops to storm the Tuileries Palace, effectively deposing the French monarchy and imprisoning King Louis XVI
31 May – 2 June 1793 – Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793: – Montagnard-aligned sans-culottes arrest all leading Girondin ministers and deputies and execute them
26–28 July 1794 – Thermidorian Reaction: A conspiracy of anti-Robespierrist Montagnards form an alliance to have de facto dictator Robespierre and his associates arrested and executed; they escape but are arrested again and executed
1 April 1795 – Insurrection of 12 Germinal, Year III: Unarmed citizens occupied the National Convention, but were driven out by the National Guard without bloodshed
5 October 1795 – 13 Vendémiaire: A royalist attempt to seize power in Paris during the Vendée rebellion is crushed by the French Revolutionary Army under the command of Napoleon
4 September 1797 – Coup of 18 Fructidor: The French Directory, with the support of the military, deposes the royalists
May 1796 - Conspiracy of the Equals: Failed radical attempt to overthrow the Directory led by Gracchus Babeouf
11 May 1798 – Law of 22 Floréal Year VI: The French Directory dismisses 106 Jacobin deputies from the Council of Five Hundred.
18 June 1799 – Coup of 30 Prairial VII: The Councils obtain the removal of three out of the five members of the French Directory through military pressure, leaving Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès as the dominant member of the French government.
9 November 1799 – Coup of 18 Brumaire : Napoleon Bonaparte overthrows the French Directory and installs the French Consulate
February 1804 – Pichegru Conspiracy: A foiled royalist plot to overthrow the Napoleonic Consulate
23 October 1812 – Malet coup of 1812: General Claude François de Malet fails to remove Napoleon from power while he was away on the Russian Campaign
2 December 1851 – French coup d'état of 1851: Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, then president of France, dissolves the National Assembly and becomes the sole ruler of the country. In the following year, he would restore the French Empire after a referendum.
23 February 1899 – French coup attempt of 1899 [fr]: Paul Déroulède attempts to overthrow the French Third Republic
13 May 1958 – May 1958 crisis in France: A partial coup d'état led by Pierre Lagaillarde, after which Charles de Gaulle is brought back to power and established the French Fifth Republic
21–26 April 1961 – Algiers putsch of 1961: A failed coup d'état against president Charles de Gaulle intended to prevent a withdrawal from French Algeria
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