Directory Vocab Flashcards
(15 cards)
10/95 Napoleon defends new Directory from Royalist uprising and gets promoted
Coup of Vendemiaire
Re-affirmed original Revolutionary ideals of Declaration of Rights of Man, but also set checks and balances - 2 chamber Council and 5 man Directory
Constitution of the Year III
Year “0” on the new calender
1792
5/95 Sans-culottes attack Council fighting against Constitution - failed, disbanded and arrested
Uprising of Prairial
At least two-thirds of the new legislature must have served in the Convention itself., the law that undermined public faith in the new constitutional order because it favored politicians already in office., 2/3 of the population agrees, then it becomes a law
Two-thirds law
Established after the Reign of Terror / National Convention; a five man group as the executive branch of the country; incompetent and corrupt, only lasted for 4 years.
Directory
10/96 formed the conspiracy of equals, an extremist group to overthrow the directory and install a communist like government with a dictator
Babeuf plot
Following Napoleon’s military victory in Italy, Austria signed a peace treaty with France
Treaty of Campo Formio
9/97 Royalist deputies purged from Council and Directory - votes nullified and subsequent votes corrupted - Jacobins back in control
Coup of Fructidor
5/98 Moderate politicians “disqualified” votes for radical Jacobin Council Members and Directors
Coup of Floreal
A reaction to the violence of the Reign of Terror in 1794, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls.
Thermidorian Reaction
Currency of the revolution - became worthless during the Directory
Assignats
Revenge against radicals after Thermidor
White Terror
Royalist Directors forced to resign by Jacobins and Sieyes
Coup of 30 Prairial
11/99 Napoleon & Sieyes overthrow the Directory and create the Consulate
Coup of Brumaire
