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Revolt of Prairial, Year III (1795)
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Constitution of the Year III (1795) Conservative, monarchist victory.
Elections are nullified.
Martial law is imposed.
Creates the Directory and institutionalized the ThermidoreanReaction. * 5-man oligarchy. [avoid a dictatorship]
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Characteristics of the Directory The Paris Commune was outlawed.
The Law of 22 Prairial was revoked.
People involved in the original Terror were now attacked. “White” Terror
Inflation continues.
Rule by rich bourgeois liberals.
Self-indulgence frivolous culture;salons return; wild fashions.
Political corruption.
Revival of Catholicism.
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Political Instability: 1795-1796 April, 1795 Inflation; bread riots.
October, 1795 Revolt of the right. * Vendée and Brittany revolted. * military suppressed them.
May, 1796 First “communist” revolt * Gracchus Babeuf and the “Conspiracy of Equals”
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18 Brumaire (Nov. 9, 1799) Coup d’état by Napoleon.
Approved by a plebiscite in December.
Abbe Sieyes: Confidence from below; authority from above.
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Read More About the Revolution
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Bibliographic Resources “Hist210—Europe in the Age of Revolutions.”http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/courses/europe1/chron/rch5.htm
“Liberty, Fraternity, Equality: Exploring the French Revolution.” http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/
Matthews, Andrew. Revolution and Reaction: Europe, 1789-1849. CambridgeUniversity Press, 2001.
“The Napoleonic Guide.” http://www.napoleonguide.com/index.htm