Book by V.A. Pogosyan is devoted to one of the topics not studied in Soviet and Russian historiography of the Great French Revolution - the history of the coup of the 18th Fructidor of the V year (September 4, 1797). Based on the study of Russian archival documents (in particular, materials from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire), which are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, as well as published sources, the author covered in detail the alignment of political forces that led to the coup, the connections of the French royalists with European reaction, the role of the army and generals.