Directory

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The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France during the later stages of the French Revolution, between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Label Occurrences
Directory canonical 7
Directory period 2
Directory (executive) 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf French government
executive council
historical regime
cameToPowerAfter fall of Maximilien Robespierre
capital Paris
characterizedBy corruption
economic difficulties
political instability
reliance on the army
constitutionalSystem Constitutional republic
country France
endDate 1799-11-09
endDateInRepublicanCalendar Year VIII
establishedBy French Constitution of 1795
surface form: Constitution of Year III
fellFromPowerIn Coup of 18 Brumaire
followedAfter Reign of Terror
foreignPolicy expansionist wars in Europe
governmentType bourgeois republic
oligarchic executive
historicalPeriod French Revolutionary Wars
War of the First Coalition
War of the Second Coalition
language French
legislativeBranch Council of Ancients
Council of Five Hundred (faction)
surface form: Council of Five Hundred
notableEvent Coup of 18 Fructidor
Coup of 22 Floréal Year VI
Coup of 30 Prairial Year VII
notableLeader Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
François de Neufchâteau
Jean-François Reubell
Lazare Carnot
Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux
Paul Barras (initially)
surface form: Paul Barras

Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
Roger Ducos
Étienne-François Le Tourneur
notableMilitaryCampaign Napoleon's Egyptian campaign
surface form: Egyptian campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte

Italian campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte
numberOfDirectors 5
overthrownBy Napoleon Bonaparte
partOf French Revolution
precededBy Committee of Public Safety
Thermidorian Reaction
replaced National Convention
startDate 1795-11-02
startDateInRepublicanCalendar Year IV
succeededBy Consulate
usedCalendar French Republican Calendar

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Description of subject: The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France during the later stages of the French Revolution, between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Coup of 18 Brumaire ended Directory
this entity surface form: Directory regime
Council of Ancients appliesToPeriod Directory
this entity surface form: Directory period
Council of Ancients oversightOf Directory
this entity surface form: Directory (executive)
Legislative assemblies of the French Directory historicalEra Directory
this entity surface form: Directory period