 Now the course of events started to speed up . The new French ambassador Charles @-@ François Delacroix took the side of the radicals . His behavior sufficiently intimidated the opponents of the radical proposals to actually fall in line . The coup that was to follow was therefore in reality superfluous . Nevertheless , the radicals , led by <unk> <unk> and Anthonie Willem <unk> , in cohorts with Pierre Auguste <unk> <unk> , the secretary of the French ambassador , now started to plot the coup d 'état of January 21 – 22 , 1798 , which , with the assistance of general Daendels , put the radicals in power . A rump assembly of about fifty radicals declared itself a <unk> , which in one fell swoop enacted the entire radical program , while the other members of the Assembly were forcibly detained . All provincial sovereignties were repealed ; the dissident members of the Assembly expelled ; an " interim Executive Directory " empowered ; and the constitutional commission reduced to seven radical members . 
