Bonaparte replaced the Directoire with the consulate.

Grave events had taken place in the bosom of the metropole: General Bonaparte had carried out the 18 brumaire (9 November); that is to say, he had violently substituted for the executive Directoire the consulate, of which he had made himself the head. This Directoire, which had just fallen, had been misled by the reports of Hédouville, who had presented Toussaint and Rigaud to it as equally dangerous to the interests of the metropole; by those of Kerverseau, who, while asking it to intervene between the parties, had also depicted the two generals to it in the same colors; and by those of Roume, whose phrases were fit only to lull the vigilance of France. This Directoire had made but a single attempt, that of Captain Dubois, to assure itself of the state of affairs. Then, giving itself up to the orgies for which history reproaches it, it had no longer given a thought to the torrents of blood that flooded the fields of Saint-Domingue. One would be tempted to believe that its policy was to keep up a fatal rivalry between the two generals, so as thereby to prevent the colony from arriving at independence.