The arrest of the Chouan leader Georges Cadoudal, March 1804

Georges Cadoudal (1771–1804) was a Chouan general and commander of the Catholic and Royal Army of Brittany.
Whilst leading a royalist plot to overthrow or assassinate the First Consul (Napoleon), this Chouan leader was apprehended by Fouché’s police in the Odéon district following a violent chase during which he killed two police officers. Sentenced to death, he was guillotined in Paris, on the Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville, alongside eleven other royalists.
The First Consul took advantage of Georges Cadoudal’s arrest to have the Duke of Enghien kidnap, judged and executed on the (false) pretext of complicity. With the royalists no longer daring to make their presence felt, Napoleon was able to have himself crowned emperor! ‘We wanted to make a king, but we ended up with an emperor,’ Cadoudal accurately observed from his prison cell.