French Military March (Instrumental) Marche de la Garde Consulaire

La garde des consuls a été créée en 1799 pour assurer la protection des consuls puis du Premier consul, Napoléon Bonaparte. The Consulate was the government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of Brumaire in 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804. By extension, the term The Consulate also refers to this period of French history. During this period, Napoleon Bonaparte, as First Consul, established himself as the head of a more authoritarian, autocratic, and centralized republican government in France while not declaring himself sole ruler.