Director (French Directory)

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

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French Revolutionary institution
collegial executive
executive government
appliesToJurisdiction French First Republic
basedOn French Constitution of 1795
surface form: Constitution of the Year III
conflict War of the First Coalition
War of the Second Coalition
country France
dissolvedBy Coup of 18 Brumaire
endTime 1799
9 November 1799
executiveBranch Directors
followedBy French Consulate
hasCause Thermidorian Reaction
fall of Maximilien Robespierre
hasCharacteristic corruption
economic difficulties
political instability
reliance on the army
hasPart Director
headOfGovernment Directors
language French
legalForm constitutional government
legislativeBody Council of Ancients
Conseil des Cinq-Cents
surface form: Council of Five Hundred
locatedIn Paris
notableCommander Jean Moreau
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
Lazare Hoche
Napoleon Bonaparte
numberOfMembers 5
officeHolder Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
François de Neufchâteau
Jean-Baptiste Treilhard NERFINISHED
Jean-François Reubell NERFINISHED
Jean-François-Auguste Moulin NERFINISHED
Lazare Carnot
Louis Gohier
Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux
Paul Barras (initially)
surface form: Paul Barras

Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
Roger Ducos
Étienne-François Le Tourneur
partOf French Revolution
replaces Committee of Public Safety
National Convention
residence Palais du Luxembourg
surface form: Luxembourg Palace
significantEvent Coup of 18 Brumaire
Coup of 18 Fructidor
Coup of 22 Floréal Year VI
Coup of 30 Prairial Year VII
startTime 1795
26 October 1795

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Third Consul precededByOffice Director (French Directory)