The Directory 1795–1799

Barras publicly attacked returning emigres as Thermidorian politics moved against royalist influence before the establishment of the Directory.

After Vendemiaire, Barras supported Bonaparte's appointment as commander of the Army of the Interior.

Carnot was elected to the Council of Ancients as the new constitutional system replaced the National Convention.

La Revelliere-Lepeaux was elected to the Council of Ancients as the constitutional institutions of the Directory replaced the Convention.

Nineteen departments elected Sieyes to the Council of Five Hundred, and he chose to represent Sarthe.

Tallien was elected to the Council of Five Hundred by several departments and continued his legislative career under the Directory.

Barras was elected one of the five members of the new Executive Directory under the Constitution of Year III.

Carnot joined the five-member Executive Directory and took responsibility for major military affairs.

La Revelliere-Lepeaux was elected to the Executive Directory with an overwhelming vote in the Council of Ancients.

Barras took up residence at the Luxembourg Palace as the Executive Directory began operating under the new constitution.

Carnot assumed a leading role in directing military policy for the new Directory.

Sieyes refused to become a member of the Executive Directory after the new constitutional government was established.

Sieyes declined the opportunity to direct the Ministry of Foreign Relations under the Directory.

Carnot worked with Jourdan on operational planning as the Directory prepared renewed campaigns against Coalition armies.

Carnot supported replacing Pichegru with Moreau in a senior army command as the Directory reorganised its military leadership.

Carnot supported the appointment of Bonaparte as commander in chief of the Army of Italy.

Barras served as a witness at the civil marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais.

Barras supported the decision that placed Bonaparte in command of the Army of Italy before the 1796 campaign.

Carnot continued coordinating military affairs as French armies campaigned in Italy and Germany during 1796.

La Revelliere-Lepeaux wrote to Josephine Bonaparte after the victories of Lonato and Castiglione and praised Napoleon's military success.

La Revelliere-Lepeaux served as president of the Directory during the summer of 1796.

Talleyrand returned to Paris after years abroad and began rebuilding his political position under the Directory.

Jourdan was elected to the Council of Five Hundred for Haute-Vienne after returning to political life.

Barras confronted a legislature strengthened by royalist electoral gains and increasingly feared a reversal of the republican settlement.

Carnot opposed plans for an anti-royalist coup by fellow Directors as conflict intensified between the executive and elected councils.

During the Fructidor coup, forces supporting Barras arrested leading royalist deputies and Director Barthelemy.

Barras backed the coup of 18 Fructidor and used troops under Augereau to remove royalist opponents from political power.

Carnot escaped arrest during the Fructidor coup and went into hiding before leaving France.

After the coup of Fructidor, Tallien attempted to moderate the treatment of some politicians targeted by the victorious Directory.

The coup of 18 Fructidor included Carnot in the proscription because he had opposed the action taken by Barras and allied Directors.

Napoleon sent General Augereau to support the Directory during the anti-royalist coup of 18 Fructidor.

La Revelliere-Lepeaux helped drive the anti-royalist coup of 18 Fructidor after electoral gains threatened the republican Directory.

After the Fructidor coup, Barras helped end the peace negotiations with Britain that had been taking place at Lille.

Carnot reached Switzerland after escaping the Fructidor proscription and continued living outside France.

Talleyrand issued diplomatic arguments defending the coup of Fructidor after the Directory defeated its royalist opponents.

After Fructidor, Carnot was stripped of his Directorial office, legislative status and place in the Institut de France.

Sieyes became president of the Council of Five Hundred for a one-month term.

Talleyrand cultivated Bonaparte after the Italian victories and used his influence inside the Directory to support the general's political standing.

The Directory recalled Massena after the mutiny that disrupted his command in the Papal States.

Sieyes was appointed French ambassador to Berlin and spent about a year representing the Directory in Prussia.

Tallien left the Council of Five Hundred at the end of his legislative term.

La Revelliere-Lepeaux supported Theophilanthropy as a civic religious movement intended to encourage morality outside traditional Catholic institutions.

Sieyes returned from Berlin after being chosen to replace Rewbell as a member of the Executive Directory.

The parliamentary crisis of 30 Prairial weakened the Directory and reduced Barras's ability to control the political situation.

The crisis of 30 Prairial forced La Revelliere-Lepeaux to resign from the Directory after pressure from the legislative councils.

Sieyes became president of the Directory while working toward a constitutional transformation of the unstable regime.

Fouche became Minister of Police during the final months of the Directory, replacing Bourguignon.

Napoleon arrived in Paris as the Directory faced military, political and financial instability.

Napoleon met Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes and Pierre Roger Ducos as political discussions intensified over replacing the Directory.

Barras hosted Bonaparte for dinner as political manoeuvring intensified shortly before the coup of Brumaire.

Barras resigned as the coup of Brumaire destroyed the Directory and ended his central role in revolutionary government.

The coup of Brumaire ended the Directory, and Napoleon became a provisional consul alongside Sieyes and Roger Ducos.