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Use "coup d'etat" in a sentence
"And whenever the crisis became more acute, all the Quidnuncs of Berlin shook their heads and said, “Now we shall have a Bismarck Ministry, and that will be a coup d'etat and the overthrow of the Constitution.”"
"It was as if a Republican writer, after the coup d'etat of the 16th May, 1877, had warned the French against electing extreme Republicans, and had echoed the Marshal-President's advice to give their votes to moderate men of all parties."
"It was no time for scruples; the coup d'etat would be legitimised afterwards by universal suffrage;"