# Vendémiaire 13: Bonaparte fires on a Paris rising as a dated street-killing

Date: 1795

## The fact

On 5 October 1795 Bonaparte fired on a Paris rising (13 Vendémiaire). It is a street-killing, not Brumaire. Napoleon's documented role is: He commanded guns against a royalist rising. The Directory survived; the street dead are the cost.

## Context

Barras is the political counterpart. Sharing the guns with the Directory is required. The setting of Vendémiaire 13: Bonaparte fires on a Paris rising as a dated street-killing is the public file around 1795-10-05. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [democratic-resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Napoleon, 13 Vendémiaire at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Fondation Napoléon — Vendémiaire at https://www.napoleon.org/en/ (Fondation Napoléon). Official carrier: Britannica — Napoleon, 13 Vendémiaire (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Fondation Napoléon — Vendémiaire (https://www.napoleon.org/en/; Fondation Napoléon).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Napoleon, 13 Vendémiaire (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening path from Vendémiaire 13: Bonaparte fires on a Paris rising as a dated street-killing on 1795-10-05. Artillery against a city rising is a democratic-procedure path stored as cost. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Vendémiaire 13: Bonaparte fires on a Paris rising as a dated street-killing under 1795-10-05 for Napoleon. Established: a sourced public record of Vendémiaire 13: Bonaparte fires on a Paris rising as a dated street-killing under 1795-10-05.

The attached driver is democratic-resilience. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin with Brumaire. Two different coups-adjacent instruments. Mixed effects of Vendémiaire 13: Bonaparte fires on a Paris rising as a dated street-killing are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Vendémiaire 13: Bonaparte fires on a Paris rising as a dated street-killing. Naming Napoleon does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1795-10-05 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Napoleon: https://factrail.ai/people/napoleon

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.napoleon.org/en/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nap-vendemiaire-1795