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    The Council of Five Hundred (Conseil des Cinq-Cents) was the lower house of the legislature of France under the Constitution of the Year III. It existed...
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    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...
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    other branches of government. The new legislature had two houses, a Council of Five Hundred and a Council of Ancients with two hundred fifty members....
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    the establishment of the Directory in 1795, there were two chambers of the French legislature. The lower, the Council of Five Hundred, also had a quickly...
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    Ancients chose five Directors, who jointly held executive power, from the list of names put forward by the Council of Five Hundred. The Council of Ancients...
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    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...
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    monarchy and its restoration, was elected President of the Council of Five Hundred. After documentation of Pichegru's treasonous activities was supplied by...
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  • 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...
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    Thermidorians (category Groups of the French Revolution)
    economic themes. After the election of 1795, the Thermidorians obtained the majority in the Council of Five Hundred, the new lower house. In Paris, the...
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  • 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...
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    Jean-Pierre would later earn a spot in the Council of Five Hundred alongside the very men who discarded any notion of accepting Bertrand Barére as a member...
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    served as Minister of the Interior from 1799 to 1800 and as the president of the Council of Five Hundred in 1799. The third surviving son of Carlo Bonaparte...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • deprived of their seats in the Council of Five Hundred, the lower house of the legislature under the French Directory. Following the Coup of Fructidor...
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    Palais Bourbon (category Seats of national legislatures)
    1795 to 1799, during the Directory, it was the meeting place of the Council of Five Hundred, which chose the government leaders. Beginning in 1806, during...
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    Napoleon (redirect from Napoleon of France)
    Bonaparte formed an alliance with Talleyrand and leading members of the Council of Five Hundred and Directory: Lucien Bonaparte, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Roger...
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    Parliament, consisting of an upper chamber called the Council of Elders (with 250 members) and a lower chamber called the Council of Five Hundred (with, accordingly...
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  • into the two councils had produced a new Neo-Jacobin majority in these two bodies, particularly in the lower house. The Council of Five Hundred — the lower...
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  • Claude-Antoine-Auguste Blad (category Members of the Council of Five Hundred)
    two thirds of the seats in the Council of Five Hundred, constituted under the 1795 constitution, were to be reserved for former members of the Convention...
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    Jean-Lambert Tallien (category Members of the Council of Five Hundred)
    the beginning of the French Directory, Tallien's political importance came to an end, for, although he sat in the Council of Five Hundred, the moderates...
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    Jean-Baptiste Drouet (revolutionary) (category Members of the Council of Five Hundred)
    officers for Marie Thérèse of France, daughter of Louis XVI. Drouet then became a member of the Directory's Council of Five Hundred following the Thermidorian...
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    Jean Julien Michel Savary (category Members of the Council of Five Hundred)
    archives". He 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...
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    of the Council of Five Hundred. Four years later, he used this position to help his brother Napoleon to overthrow the Directory. Upon the outbreak of...
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    Henri Grégoire (category Members of the Council of Five Hundred)
    establishment of the Directory in 1795, Grégoire was elected to the Council of Five Hundred. He and his fellow council members opposed the coup d’état of 18 Brumaire...
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    included Bonaparte's brother Lucien, then serving as speaker of the Council of Five Hundred, Roger Ducos, another Director, and Charles Maurice de Talleyrand...
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    Pierre Claude François Daunou (category Members of the Council of Five Hundred)
    Girondinism that the Council of the Ancients was given the right of convoking the Council of Five Hundred outside Paris, an expedient which made possible Napoleon...
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    Jean-Marie Defrance (category Commanders of the Order of Saint Louis)
    French General of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was also a member of the Council of Five Hundred (the lower house of the legislative...
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  • Club de Clichy (category Groups of the French Revolution)
    the Council of Five Hundred through the newly elected deputies. Divisions among the group pitted about 80 intransigent partisans for the return of monarchy...
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  • Charles Lambert d'Outrepont (category Members of the Council of Five Hundred)
    Centrale de Bruxelles (1797), a deputy on the Council of Five Hundred (1798), and a judge on the Court of Cassation. He died in Paris on 4 March 1809....
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