Napoleon Bonaparte. (It is unusual to describe him as a statesman, he was a general).
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From 1795 until 1799 (so still during the revolution) there was a directory system. This system soon grew unpopular with the French citizens and Napoleon Bonaparte took advantage of the weak position the directory was in, and committed a coup (in 17899, and with this he ended the French Revolution). He eventually crowned himself emperor and made France into an Empire.
Napoleon Bonaparte was known as the 'Little Corporal' although he was about 5 feet 6 inches tall - about average for his time. He was in fact Emperor rather than king of the French from 1804 to 1814 (although he also had himself crowned King of Italy).
Napoleon Bonaparte. He came to power in 1799, putting a stop to the French revolution and crowning himself Emperor, and with that, making France an Empire instead of a monarchy.
France did not have an Emperor during the French Revolution, Napoleon became the Emperor of the French in 1804.
It started on July 14th, 1789 with the storming of the Bastille prison and ended on November 9th, 1799 with Napoleon staging a coup and declaring himself emperor.