coup d'etat

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And then real conspiracies usually revolve around singular events like a coup-d'état or an assassination.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2021

It is just the sort of sovereignty for which Louis Napoleon provided when he wished to procure a popular sanction for the numberless atrocities of the coup-d'état of the 2d December.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various

Thus this violation of the law, this coup-d'état against liberty was accomplished.

From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by Mignet, M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis)

All Paris, on reading the placards, said, "This is the coup-d'état."

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

Here would be all this accumulation of capital, and by some successful coup-d'état Winston and Darcy would swoop down upon it, and take the lion's share.

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie