French client republic proclaimed after Patriot revolutionaries backed by the invading French army overthrew Stadtholder William V in January 1795, replacing the confederal Dutch Republic with a unitary state modeled on revolutionary France.
Converted by Napoleon into the client Kingdom of Holland on 5 June 1806, under his brother Louis Bonaparte.
The standard English-language history of the Dutch Patriot movement and the Batavian Republic it produced; polity-specific, verified on Open Library (author + title match).