Everything about Council Of 500 totally explained
The
Council of Five Hundred (
Conseil des Cinq-Cents), or simply
the Five Hundred was the
lower house of the legislature of
France during the period commonly known (from the name of the
executive branch during this time) as the
Directory (
Directoire), from
August 22,
1795 until
November 9,
1799, roughly the second half of the period generally referred to as the
French Revolution. The
upper house was the
Council of Ancients (
Conseil des Anciens).
Besides functioning as a legislative body, the Council of Five Hundred proposed the list out of which the Ancients chose five
Directors, who jointly held executive power.
Napoleon Bonaparte led a group of
grenadiers who drove the Council from its chambers and installed himself as leader of France as its First Consul in the
Coup d'État of Eighteenth Brumaire.
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