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French Directory
- Council of Five HundredThe Constitution of Year III arrived on the 24th of September 1795 after a public referendum. This document created the Council of Five Hundred as the lower…
- Coup of 18 FructidorThe April 1797 legislative elections returned a royalist majority to France's Corps législatif. This outcome threatened the existence of the First French…
- War of the Second CoalitionOn the 11th of June 1798, General Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers directed a landing of several thousand French troops at strategic locations around the island of…
- French DirectoryOn the 26th of October 1795, five men took their seats in the Luxembourg Palace to begin a new experiment in French governance.