1797 ⟶ Directory Divided: Internal Power Struggle Erupts
July 16: Conflict within the Directory between Barthélemy an...
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🏛️ Directory Elected: Establishment of Executive Power
October 31: The first Directory is elected by the legislature; its members are Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, Jean-François Rewbell, Étienne-François Letourneur, Paul Barras and Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, who declines to serve and is replaced by Lazare Carnot.⟶
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🏛️ Directory Divided: Internal Power Struggle Erupts
July 16: Conflict within the Directory between Barthélemy and Carnot, favorable to the monarchists, and the three pro-republican directors, Barras, La Révellière-Lépeaux, and Rewbell.⟶
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🗳️ Directory Replaces Carnot and Barthélemy with Merlin de Douai and Neufchâteau
September 8: Election of two new republican directors, Merlin de Douai and François de Neufchâteau, to replace Carnot and Barthélemy.⟶
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🏛️ Directory Members Forced Out in Coup of 30 Prairial
June 18–19: Two royalist members of the Directory, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai and La Révellière-Lépeaux, are forced to resign, under threat of being brought to trial by the Councils. They are replaced by two moderate leftists, Roger Ducos, and Jean-François-Auguste Moulin. (Coup of 30 Prairial Year VII )⟶
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🤝 Bonaparte Received by the Directory
October 17: Bonaparte is received by the Directory.⟶
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