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Members of the Council of Five Hundred

  • 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…
  • Joseph BonaparteGiuseppe di Buonaparte entered the world on the 7th of January 1768 in Corte, the capital of the Corsican Republic. His parents were Carlo Buonaparte and…
  • Roger DucosPierre Roger Ducos stood in the National Convention on the 21st of January 1793. He cast his ballot for the death of King Louis XVI without appeal or delay.
  • Paul BarrasPaul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras was born at Fox-Amphoux on the 30th of June 1755. He descended from a noble family of Provence and entered the…
  • Emmanuel Joseph SieyèsEmmanuel Joseph Sieyès was born on the 3rd of May 1748 in Fréjus, a southern French town. He entered the seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris and spent ten…
  • Jean-Jacques-Régis de CambacérèsJean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès entered the world on the 18th of October 1753 in Montpellier. He was born into a family of legal nobility, though his…
  • Lucien BonaparteLucien Bonaparte entered the world in Ajaccio, Corsica, on the 21st of May 1775. He was the third surviving son of Carlo Bonaparte and Letizia Ramolino.