 | The Council of Ancients or Council of Elders (French: Conseil des Anciens) was the upper house of the French legislature under the Constitution of the... 9 KB (1,000 words) - 20:08, 26 February 2024 |
 | the Council of Five Hundred proposed the list out of which the Ancients chose five Directors, who jointly held executive power. The Council of Five Hundred... 9 KB (817 words) - 10:12, 29 January 2024 |
a form of government in feudal Japan Council of Ancients, the upper house of the French Directory, a.k.a. Council of Elders Teip Council of Elders, a... 1 KB (173 words) - 22:45, 19 September 2023 |
 | Jean-Antoine Marbot (category Members of the Council of Ancients) ignited by émigrés in the county of Avignon, in the south of France. Re-elected president of the Council of Ancients on 19 June 1798, he delivered a commemorative... 19 KB (1,523 words) - 19:01, 23 December 2023 |
 | French Directory (redirect from Directory of France) the end of October a legislature consisting of the Council of 500 was created, responsible for drafting legislation, and Council of Ancients, an upper... 162 KB (22,151 words) - 02:10, 22 April 2024 |
1798 French legislative election (category 1798 events of the French Revolution) 1798 to elect one-third of the members of the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients, the lower and upper houses of the legislature, as well... 6 KB (739 words) - 22:07, 23 January 2024 |
 | Council of Ancients, and a lower house, or Council of 500. This was intended to slow down the legislative process, in reaction to the wild swings of policy... 4 KB (313 words) - 04:37, 16 November 2023 |
| resign, then, second, to get the Council of Ancients and the Council of Five Hundred (the upper and lower houses of the legislature, respectively) to... 13 KB (1,467 words) - 02:11, 22 April 2024 |
 | French Revolution (redirect from French Revolution of 1789) and approved by the Council of Ancients, an upper house containing 250 men over the age of 40. Executive power was in the hands of five Directors, selected... 147 KB (18,721 words) - 16:41, 26 April 2024 |
 | model of the Roman Senate. France's first experience with an upper house was under the Directory from 1795 to 1799, when the Council of Ancients was the... 23 KB (469 words) - 18:10, 18 September 2023 |
1795 French legislative election (category 1795 events of the French Revolution) IV) to elect one-third of the members of the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients, the lower and upper houses of the legislature. The elections... 6 KB (628 words) - 14:11, 8 March 2024 |
 | Council of the Ancients, took place in the elections of April 1797. Soon the new majority repealed laws against priests who did not take the oath of the... 7 KB (582 words) - 02:18, 2 December 2023 |
 | Convention by the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients, as the bicameral legislative power. Dantonists: right-wing of The Mountain. They... 13 KB (1,684 words) - 15:55, 1 December 2023 |
 | Ange-Élisabeth-Louis-Antoine Bonnier (category Members of the Council of Ancients) representative of Hérault in the Legislative Assembly and of the National Convention, he generally voted with the majority. Bonnier voted for the execution of Louis... 2 KB (175 words) - 20:27, 22 April 2024 |
 | François Barbé-Marbois (category Members of the Council of Ancients) Suspected of treason, he was arrested on his return but soon freed. In 1795 he was elected to the Council of the Ancients, where the general moderation of his... 9 KB (989 words) - 06:20, 13 October 2023 |
 | Claude Ambroise Régnier, duc de Massa (category French Ministers of Justice) lawyer and politician. He was a deputy in 1789, a member of the Council of Ancients, a member of the Senate and a Minister. Claude Ambroise Régnier was... 7 KB (771 words) - 15:05, 23 November 2023 |
Council of Ancients and Council of Five Hundred—the two legislative branches under the French Directory—voted an act declaring that the election of Director... 3 KB (423 words) - 06:51, 12 September 2023 |
Jean-François-Bertrand Delmas (category Members of the Legislative Assembly (France)) Legislative Assembly of 1791–1792, then a member of the French National Convention, the Committee of Public Safety and the Council of Ancients, briefly presiding... 2 KB (124 words) - 06:07, 3 November 2023 |
 | Parc de Saint-Cloud (redirect from Parc of Saint-Cloud) the meeting place of the Council of Five Hundred and Council of Ancients on 10 November 1799, the day following Napoleon's Coup of 18 Brumaire. The Parc... 4 KB (433 words) - 18:50, 28 April 2023 |
 | Dominique Joseph Garat (category Members of the Council of Ancients) in the French Basque Country. After a good education under the direction of a relation who was a curé, and a period as an advocate at Bordeaux, he came... 12 KB (1,339 words) - 13:04, 8 January 2024 |
 | authority of the ancients" in favor of an alternative understanding of the canon. According to this interpretation, the canon shows the role the Bishop of Rome... 89 KB (10,928 words) - 20:28, 21 April 2024 |
 | Jean-Barthélemy Le Couteulx de Canteleu (category Members of the Council of Ancients) rapporteur for the law on the sale of 400 million francs of clergy lands. In 1790 he refused the post of caissier général of the Extraordinaire and proposed... 7 KB (995 words) - 16:53, 21 August 2023 |
1799 French legislative election (category 1799 events of the French Revolution) one-third of the members of the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients, the lower and upper houses of the legislature. Following the Coup of 11... 5 KB (531 words) - 03:56, 23 April 2024 |
 | president of the Council of Five Hundred, and another royalist, François Barbé-Marbois becomes president of the Council of Ancients. May 20: A drawing of lots... 118 KB (15,912 words) - 23:43, 10 March 2024 |
1797 French legislative election (category 1797 events of the French Revolution) 1797 to elect one-third of the members of the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients, the lower and upper houses of the legislature, which... 5 KB (519 words) - 12:20, 29 January 2024 |
Étienne Maynaud de Bizefranc de Laveaux (category Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Bourbon Restoration) the family of man." On 24 Germinal year VII (13 April 1799) Laveaux was unanimously reelected to the Council of Ancients for the department of Saône-et-Loire... 19 KB (2,463 words) - 08:29, 28 October 2023 |
 | French Consulate (redirect from Consulate of France) directors of the government to resign. On the night of the 19 Brumaire (10 November 1799) a remnant of the Council of Ancients abolished the Constitution of the... 25 KB (2,659 words) - 13:42, 17 April 2024 |
 | André-Daniel Laffon de Ladebat (category Members of the Legislative Assembly (France)) Ladebat was President of the Council of Ancients at the time of the 18 Fructidor coup against the new moderate majority on the Councils. He was later deported... 11 KB (1,132 words) - 23:46, 11 November 2023 |
 | Jean Julien Michel Savary (category Members of the Council of Ancients) then began a political career, sitting on the Council of Five Hundred then the Council of the Ancients. He was sub-inspector to the reviews during the... 5 KB (502 words) - 14:26, 24 April 2024 |
 | Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai (category Members of the Council of Ancients) to be a member of his privy council. As an elected member of the States-General for the Third Estate in Douai, he was one of the chief of those who applied... 12 KB (1,206 words) - 07:18, 15 March 2024 |