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The Directory: 1795-1799

On August 22, 1795, the convention ratified

Meanwhile...

Elections of 1795

Victory of moderate royalists

Coup attempt by a group of Jacobins, led by Gracchus Babeuf to reinstate the government of Constitution of 1793

The Directory gets Babeuf guillotined

Elections of 1797

Pro-royal and pro-Jacobin results

A coup by three Directory members

Nullification of the election results and unseating of two Directory members

Election of 1798

The left makes gains

The nullification of results (again...) by the Directory

The public loses trust and faith in the government

not only that, but...

Distrust of the Directory increases as the war effort fails

the end

apoleon

The Directory

and

The Constitution of 1795

National Convention

Egypt

After the execusion of Robespierre

Legislative

Executive

Oppositions:

Council of Ancients

and

The "unstoppable" French army was waging wars in

  • 250 members

Council of Five Hundred

  • More conservative
  • Entrenched in the values of the middle class

The Directory

  • 500 members

Italy

The clergy returning from exile

Louis XVIII

Younger brother of Louis XVI

A group of five officers who were given the authority to appoint people to positions in the government

Two thirds of the first legislature had to have already served on the National Convention between 1792 and 1795

Annual elections were to be held

So that the left would not become too influential

Napoleon Bonaparte

Led by...

The Directory encouraged the army to wage wars, since a large army lowered unemployment within France

the Directory

1795-1798

Abuses of power by

French army faces threat from Britain, Austria, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire

1799

Military Defeats

Napoleon runs back to France...

Napoleon's army loses in Egypt

Napoleon institutes himself as the leader of a military dictatorship,

A military coup

The Constitution of 1795

In 1799, the Council of Five Hundred elects a new member to the Directory:

The Dire

Legislative

Executive

Council of Ancients

A group of five officers who were given the authority to appoint people to positions in the government

  • 250 members

ctory

Council of Five Hundred

Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès

  • 500 members

Annual elections were to be held

Two thirds of the first legislature had to have already served on the National Convention between 1792 and 1795

who enlists the aid of Napoleon, with whom he executes...

So that the left would not become too influential

ending the French Revolution.

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