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coup d'état (pl. coups d'état) a sudden change in government by force; literally "hit (blow) of state." French uses the capital É, because the use of a capital letter alters the meaning of the word ( É tat: a State, as in a country; é tat: a state of being).
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A coup d'état (/ ˌ k uː d eɪ ˈ t ɑː / ⓘ; French: [ku deta] ⓘ; lit. ' stroke of state '), [1] or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership.
Cavalry in the streets of Paris, after President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte seized dictatorial power in the French coup of 1851. A self-coup, also called an autocoup (from Spanish autogolpe) or coup from the top, is a form of coup d'état in which a political leader, having come to power through legal means, stays in power illegally through the actions of themselves or their supporters. [1]
Coup d'état. Deposition of a government "Counter-coup" and "Coup" redirect here. For the injury type, see Coup contrecoup injury. For other uses, see Coup ...
Like a soulful jazz piece, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” ebbs and flows in complicated ways. Sometimes a long solo — or in this case, a particular story not immediately linked to the ...
A new book by former Trump aide Peter Navarro claims that the former president was supportive of an attempt to remove his son-in-law Jared Kushner from having control over his 2020 campaign and ...
Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, first published in 1968, is a book by Edward Luttwak examining the conditions, strategy, planning, and execution of coups d'état. [1] A revised edition of the book, with references to twenty-first century technology, was published in 2016. [ 2 ]