MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Directory was a 5 members committee which replaced the committee of Public safety under the Jacobin leader Robespierre. It was in power until Napoleon became the emperor of France.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Constitution established a unique kind of executive, a five-man Directory chosen by the legislature. It required the Council of Five Hundred to prepare, by secret ballot, a list of candidates for the Directory. The Council of Ancients then chose, again by secret ballot, the Directors from that provided list.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Directory, a five-member committee that governed France from November 1795 to November 1799, failed to reform the disastrous economy, relied heavily on army and violence, and represented another turn towards dictatorship during the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -These then appointed a Directory, an executive made up of five members. This was meant as a safeguard against the concentration of power in a one man executive as under the Jacobins.