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A consul is an official representative of the government of one state in the territory of another, normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul's own country, and to facilitate trade and friendship between the people of the two countries. A consul is distinguished from an ambassador , the latter being a representative from one head of state to another. There can be only one ambassador from one country to another, representing the first country's head of state to that of the second, and h
In Classical Greece , some of the functions of the modern Consul were fulfilled by a Proxenos . Unlike the modern position, this was a citizen of the host polity (in Greece, a city state). The Pyroxenes was usually a rich merchant who had socio-economic ties with another city and who helped its citizens when they were in trouble in his own city. The position of Pyroxenes was often hereditary in a particular family. Modern Honorary Consuls fulfil a function that is to a degree similar to that of the Ancient
After the Coup of 18 Brumaire, Napoleon Bonaparte with the help of Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and Roger Ducos, started to organize a new goverment that would replace the former one, the so-called Directory, that was established righ after the mess of the French Revolution and the fall of Robesbierre. Napoleon, already a very famous general, known for his leadership during the First Italian Campaign and the Egyptian Campaign, sought to use his popularity to take the power on what would be known as the Coup of 18