Conservative Election Results Annulled
After Fructidor his allies invalidated numerous electoral returns, ensuring that the councils no longer reflected their recent conservative gains.
Role range: 1795-1799
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Louis Marie La Revelliere-Lepeaux Biography and Timeline — Page 2
Follow Louis Marie La Revelliere-Lepeaux through 78 dated historical records for France.
Louis Marie La Revelliere-Lepeaux, historical timeline
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1797
Constitutional Checks Weaken After Fructidor
La Revelliere Lepeaux and his allies preserved the republic in name while sharply limiting the independence of its elected legislature.
Role range: 1795-1799
Director Supports Extraordinary Republican Defense
La Revelliere Lepeaux sided with Barras and Rewbell in accepting an unconstitutional use of force to prevent perceived royalist political gains.
Role range: 1795-1799
Directors Claim to Defend Republican Constitution
The interventionists described themselves as defenders of the Revolution, although their actions violated the autonomy intended for the legislative councils.
Role range: 1795-1799
Disagreement With Carnot Over Intervention
La Revelliere Lepeaux supported a forceful solution to the electoral crisis, unlike Carnot who objected to the planned coup.
Role range: 1795-1799
Fructidor Coup Preserves His Office
The armed intervention on 18 Fructidor removed hostile deputies and Directors while keeping La Revelliere Lepeaux in executive power.
Role range: 1795-1799
La Revelliere Challenges Clerical Restorations
La Revelliere Lepeaux warned that concessions to religious and royalist opposition could restore institutions defeated earlier in the Revolution.
Role range: 1795-1799
La Revelliere Remains in Executive Office
La Revelliere Lepeaux retained his seat after Fructidor and helped direct the policies of a government more dependent on military coercion.
Role range: 1795-1799
Political Deportations Receive Executive Support
The regime removed defeated opponents through exceptional deportation orders rather than relying on normal parliamentary or judicial safeguards.
Role range: 1795-1799
Press Restrictions Follow Military Coup
New censorship powers curtailed royalist newspapers and exposed the tension between republican security and the political liberties announced in 1789.
Role range: 1795-1799
Religious Legislation Worsens Institutional Dispute
Proposed concessions to refractory priests increased his suspicion that the councils sought to reverse the Revolution through legislation.
Role range: 1795-1799
Religious Policy Hardens After Coup
La Revelliere Lepeaux supported renewed action against clerical networks, reflecting the regimes belief that nonjuring priests fostered counterrevolution.
Role range: 1795-1799
Rotating Presidency Ends in November
La Revelliere Lepeaux completed his second presidential term while remaining a Director under the reconfigured republican administration.
Role range: 1795-1799
Royalist Election Results Alarm Directory
Conservative advances in the legislative elections made La Revelliere Lepeaux fear that republican institutions would be overturned from within.
Role range: 1795-1799
Second Directorial Presidency Starts
La Revelliere Lepeaux began another rotating presidency in August 1797, just as confrontation with the conservative councils reached its climax.
Role range: 1795-1799
Theophilanthropic Movement Receives Public Support
La Revelliere Lepeaux promoted Theophilanthropy, a moral and religious movement intended to encourage belief in God and civic virtue without Catholic hierarchy.
Role range: 1795-1799
Use of Public Churches Sparks Controversy
The governments tolerance for Theophilanthropic use of church buildings generated disputes about access, worship and the relationship between religion and the state.
Role range: 1795-1799
1798
Theophilanthropy
La Revelliere-Lepeaux supported Theophilanthropy as a civic religious movement intended to encourage morality outside traditional Catholic institutions.
Role range: 1795-1799 – 1795-1799
Egypt Expedition Begins Under Directory
Bonapartes expedition to Egypt launched during La Revelliere Lepeauxs directorial tenure and expanded French military ambitions into the eastern Mediterranean.
Role range: 1795-1799
Floreal Elections Become Executive Controversy
The Directory oversaw another disputed legislative election cycle, and the annulment of unwanted results again damaged representative legitimacy.
Role range: 1795-1799
Opposition to Catholic Political Influence
He associated some clerical networks with royalism, supporting government vigilance even as restrictions on religious activity provoked resistance.
Role range: 1795-1799
Second Coalition Threatens French Gains
France faced a widening European coalition, placing increasing pressure on the Directorys military leadership and capacity to fund warfare.
Role range: 1795-1799
Theophilanthropy Gains Official Visibility
During 1798 La Revelliere Lepeaux continued to favor civic religious observances as part of the republics wider struggle over public morality.
Role range: 1795-1799
Third Directorial Presidency Opens
La Revelliere Lepeaux began a third rotating term as president in November 1798 while the republic confronted new international dangers.
Role range: 1795-1799
1799
Resignation from Directory
The crisis of 30 Prairial forced La Revelliere-Lepeaux to resign from the Directory after pressure from the legislative councils.
Role range: 1795-1799 – 1795-1799
Constitutional Executive Balance Breaks Down
The Prairial crisis revealed that the Year III arrangements did not prevent legislative majorities from forcing the resignation of supposedly independent Directors.
Role range: 1795-1799
Council Opposition Demands Executive Changes
The legislative councils increasingly challenged the Directors after military setbacks, threatening those members considered responsible for failed policy.
Role range: 1795-1799
Former Director Watches Brumaire Upheaval
The fall of the Directory in November ended the institution La Revelliere Lepeaux had helped govern, though he was no longer in office during the coup.
Role range: 1795-1799
Legacy of Republican Religious Experiment
His years in office showed how the Directory had attempted to encourage civic morality through nontraditional worship while struggling to protect freedom of conscience.
Role range: 1795-1799
Lepeaux Faces Pressure to Resign
La Revelliere Lepeaux was blamed for government failures and pressed by legislators to surrender his seat in the executive.
Role range: 1795-1799
Lepeaux Resigns During Government Crisis
La Revelliere Lepeaux resigned under pressure on 30 Prairial, ending his long service as one of the original Directors.
Role range: 1795-1799
Loss of Executive Authority
His departure removed one of the longest serving original Directors and marked a significant weakening of the governments older republican leadership.
Role range: 1795-1799
Military Defeats Intensify Parliamentary Criticism
French reverses in Europe emboldened legislators who argued that the executive had failed to manage the war effectively.
Role range: 1795-1799
Political Retirement After Directory Service
After leaving office La Revelliere Lepeaux ceased directing national policy while opponents continued debating how to rebuild the failing constitutional system.
Role range: 1795-1799
Presidential Rotation Concludes in February
La Revelliere Lepeaux ended his third presidential term while retaining his place among the five Directors until the June political crisis.
Role range: 1795-1799
Resignation Under Prairial Pressure
La Revelliere Lepeaux resigned on 18 June after parliamentary pressure in the crisis of 30 Prairial forced a reorganization of the Directory.
Role range: 1795-1799
Sieyes Becomes Fellow Director
The election of Sieyes to the executive introduced an influential advocate of constitutional reconstruction who did not share La Revelliere Lepeauxs commitment to preserving the existing leadership.
Role range: 1795-1799
Theophilanthropy Loses Leading Political Patron
With La Revelliere Lepeaux removed from government, the civic religious movement lost its most influential defender inside the executive.
Role range: 1795-1799
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