Delayed Reaction

I left things last week in France with the 18 Brumaire coup which had left France governed by three consuls: Abbé Sieyès, Napoleon and, just for the record, Roger Ducos. I called the last episode “Reaction”.  Well, I’m calling this one “Delayed Reaction” because that’s what it seems like to me. There is not a counter-revolution going on but a reaction to what was seen as the excesses of the revolution, and the first reaction that brought in those three consuls wasn’t seen as going far enough, not by Napoleon anyway. So, what kind of government did Napoleon bring about?