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The Directory (also called Directorate, French: le Directoire) was a five-member committee in the French First Republic from 2 November 1795 until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the Consulate.

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  • Max Adamo Sturz Robespierres

    The Convention rises against Robespierre (27 July 1794)

  • François Boissy d-Anglas

    François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas, one of the principal authors of the Constitution of 1795

  • Paul Barras directeur

    Paul Barras, who defended the government against attacks from the left and right

  • Louis Lazare Hoche1

    General Lazare Hoche defeated a royalist army that landed in Brittany (July 1795)

  • Attaque de la Convention nationale, 1790

    Government troops under Napoleon fire on insurgents near Saint-Roch, Paris, 5 October 1795

  • France. 5 francs coin, 1795-1796, First Republic

    Silver 5 francs, Directory. First year of minting (L'AN 4.)

  • François-Noël Babeuf

    François Noël Babeuf, engraving by François Bonneville, 1794 (BNF, Département des Estampes)

  • Attaque camp de Grenelle

    Attack by the followers of Babeuf on the army camp of Grenelle on 9 and 10 September 1796. Drawing by Abraham Girardet, engraving by Pierre-Gabriel Berthault, 1802. (BNF, Département des Estampes)

  • La Bataille du Pont d'Arcole

    Bonaparte won his first major victory leading his soldiers across a bridge at the Battle of Arcole (17 November 1796)

  • Napoleon at the Battle of Rivoli

    Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Rivoli (14 January 1797)

  • Irish-Invasion-Gillray

    A British cartoon showed the failure of the French military expedition to Ireland dispersed by storms at sea in 1797

  • Pichegru

    General Jean-Charles Pichegru, president of the Council of Five Hundred, was accused of being a secret royalist

  • Charles Pierre Francois Augereau

    General Pierre Augereau, a close ally of Bonaparte, led the army that arrested the royalist leaders of the legislature (4 September 1797)

  • Augereau Coup d etat 18 Fructidor in Tuileries

    The army arrests General Pichegru at the Tuileries Palace (4 September 1797)

  • The Battle of the Nile

    The Destruction of 'L'Orient' at the Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798, oil on canvas by George Arnald (1825-1827). Defeat at the Battle of the Nile left Bonaparte and his army stranded in Egypt. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England

  • Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès - crop

    Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès first proposed the coup d'état, but he was left out of the final resulting government

  • Joseph Fouché

    Joseph Fouché, Minister of Police, assured that the police would not interfere in Bonaparte's seizure of power

  • Bouchot - Le general Bonaparte au Conseil des Cinq-Cents

    Bonaparte confronts the members of the Council of Five Hundred on 10 November 1799

  • Gros - First Consul Bonaparte (Detail)

    Bonaparte as the new First Consul, by Antoine-Jean Gros, c. 1802, Musée de la Légion d'honneur, Paris

  • Boilly-Point-de-Convention-ca1797

    Dress of upper-class Parisians in 1797 by Louis-Léopold Boilly

  • Muscadins

    Les deux incroyables: Muscadins or Incroyables wore extravagant costumes in reaction against the recent Reign of Terror, by Carle Vernet, c. 1797

  • Styles of ornament, exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text. A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, wood-carvers, chasers, modellers, (14765802365)

    Furniture and objects in the Directory style

  • Paul Barras

    Paul Barras (here in the ceremonial dress of a Director) was a master of political intrigue

  • La Révellière-Lépeaux Directeur

    Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux

  • Jean-François Reubell

    Jean-François Rewbell

  • Étienne-François Le Tourneur - Directeur

    Étienne-François Le Tourneur

  • Portrait Lazare Carnot

    Lazare Carnot, a brilliant organizer and mathematician but poor intriguer, was the enemy of Barras

  • Louvre-peinture-francaise-p1020324

    Imaginary view of the gallery of the Louvre as a ruin, by Hubert Robert (1796), Louvre, Paris

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