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    established the Executive Directory. Adopted by the convention on 5 Fructidor Year III (22 August 1795) and approved by plebiscite on 6 September. Its preamble...
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    The Constitution of the Year VIII (French: Constitution de l'an VIII or French: Constitution du 22 frimaire an VIII) was a national constitution of France...
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    presented on 5 Messidor (23 June) and passed on 22 August 1795 (5 Fructidor of the Year III). The new constitution went back to the constitution of 1791 as...
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    house of the legislature of the French First Republic under the Constitution of the Year III. It operated from 31 October 1795 to 9 November 1799 during the...
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    Constitution! You yourselves have destroyed it. You violated it on 18 Fructidor; you violated it on 22 Floreal; you violated it on 30 Prairial. It no...
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  • October 1793. The Constitution of the Year III, Constitution of 22 August 1795, Constitution of the Year III, or Constitution of 5 Fructidor – Establishes...
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    Lanjuinais, le 7 fructidor, an 3, sur l'envoi et la publication des lois (1795) Rapport fait par J.D. Lanjuinais, sur la résolution du 17 brumaire an 5, relative...
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    the capture of the fortress of Gradisca (19 March 1797). After the 18th Fructidor, Napoleon ordered his generals to collect from their respective divisions'...
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  • seats by decree of the Council of Five Hundred. After the Coup of 18 Fructidor Year V, which saw the union of pro-Republican French parties (The Mountain...
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    Reaching Paris on 10 Fructidor (27 August), he soon found himself increasingly at odds with those now in power. On 12 Fructidor (29 August) he defended...
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    " He was firmly opposed to the royalists and supported the coup of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) in which the French Directory took power. He was elected...
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    22 Fructidor an 1, jusqu'au 15 Pluviose an III, 8 sept. 1793 - 3 febr. 1795 1798 – Réponse de L.N.M. Carnot ... au rapport fait sur la conjuration du 18...
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    or moderate deputies. The Directory was established after the Constitution of Year III which was adopted by a referendum on 24 September 1795, and constituted...
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  • Procès-verbaux du Comité d'instruction publique de la Convention Nationale, tome 5, 17 fructidor an II (3 septempre 1794) - 30 ventôse an III (20 mars 1795)...
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    royalists from the legislative councils on 4 September—the Coup of 18 Fructidor. This left Barras and his republican allies in control again but more...
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    Directory. Accordingly, he was proscribed immediately after the coup of 18 Fructidor, and lived in Great Britain until the establishment of the French Consulate...
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    when he became king. In Boston, Louis Philippe learned of the coup of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) and of the exile of his mother to Spain. He and his...
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    month" in Charlemagne's calendar. September corresponds partly to the Fructidor and partly to the Vendémiaire of the first French republic. September...
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  • 10 March 1793. While maintaining his position on the émigrés, on 18 Fructidor III (4 September 1795) he asked that Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord...
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    the civil code. He showed a deep understanding of jurisprudence. On 27 Fructidor year X (14 September 1802) Napoleon named Régnier chief judge and Minister...
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    supporter after Thermidor. He died while imprisoned during the Coup of 18 Fructidor (1797). In the twentieth century, "Saint-Just" was used as a pseudonym...
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    costume des représentants du peuple. Séance du 27 fructidor an V ». Corps législatif. Conseil des Cinq-Cents. Impr. nationale, an V. Notice n° : FRBNF30186519...
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    officially led by a president, as stipulated by Article 141 of the Constitution of the Year III. An entirely ceremonial post, the first president was Jean-François...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
    in 1797, Talleyrand was instrumental in assisting with the Coup of 18 Fructidor, which ousted two moderate members of the Directory in favor of the Jacobins...
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    religion. A committed republican from 1795, he backed the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) and the following one on 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799)...
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    of 18 Fructidor against the royalists in the legislature. Augereau arrests Barthélemy, Pichegru, and the leading royalist deputies. September 5: The Directory...
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    which succeeded the convention, imposed on all religious ministers (Fructidor, Year V) the obligation of swearing hatred to royalty and anarchy. A certain...
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  • defending the Palais des Tuileries. Similarly, following the Coup of 18 Fructidor an V, he was condemned to deportation but escaped proscription. Reappearing...
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    Barruel-Beauvert at his home. Beauvert had been outlawed following the coup of 18 Fructidor on September 4, 1797. Paine believed that the United States under President...
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    executed fellow Committee member Maximilien Robespierre. 1797, Coup of 18 Fructidor in France: The French Directory, with the support of the military, seizes...
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