A plebiscite approved the Consulate for life by more than three and a half million votes to eight thousand, together with the right to designate a successor. The Constitution of Year X that followed curtailed the Tribunate, strengthened the Senate and completed the personalisation of power. Only the title was lacking: the Empire was already in the making two years before its proclamation.
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Characters Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès
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