French Directory
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.[1]
French Directory Media
The Convention rises against Robespierre (27 July 1794)
François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas, one of the principal authors of the Constitution of 1795
Paul Barras, President of Directory (1798-1799)
General Lazare Hoche defeated a royalist army that landed in Brittany (July 1795)
Government troops under Napoleon fire on insurgents near Saint-Roch, Paris, 5 October 1795
François Noël Babeuf, engraving by François Bonneville, 1794 (BNF, Département des Estampes)
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)
The Crossing of the Arcole Bridge by Horace Vernet, 1826. Bonaparte won his first major victory leading his soldiers across a bridge at the Battle of Arcole (17 November 1796)
Notes
- ↑ For example F. Furet and D. Richet in “French Revolution” (Macmillan, 1970)
