"coup d'etat" meaning in English

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          "text": "The truth of the axiom that there is nothing so successful as success, is more conclusively proved by the Coup d’Etat of Louis Napoleon than by any other event of the period."
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          "ref": "1904, Frank Maloy Anderson [ed.], The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of France, 1789–1901, The H. W. Wilson Company, number 111, page 538",
          "text": "These documents throw light on many features of the coup d’etat of December 2, 1851, and the plebiscite which followed it."
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