The failure of the Directory
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- Failed to create stability
- The failure of the Directory
- Frequent direct action on the constitution, meant people had no respect for the Directory
- Trying to maintain a non-Jacobin/Royalist majoirty in the councils, the directors interfered with the election results
- Coups of Fructidor (1797) and Floreal (1798) they purged the councils
- Increasing reliance on the army to settle political disputes
- Started with the Thermidorians during the risings of Prairial and Vendemiaire and under the directory under the coup of Fructidor
- Made an army takeover possible.
- Started with the Thermidorians during the risings of Prairial and Vendemiaire and under the directory under the coup of Fructidor
- Safeseats for the directory (EG wealthy notables) alienated by its policies
- In particular forced loans.
- Refused to vote in annual elections or take up posts in local government: Directory had no defence
- Enthusiasm for war had gone: people wanted peace
- War became a necessity for the Directory
- Needed money for the French treasury
- Provide an opportunity to keep ambitious generals and unruly soldiers out of France
- Renewal of war after 1797, produced a flurry of Jacobin activity
- The failure of the Directory
- Frequent direct action on the constitution, meant people had no respect for the Directory
- Trying to maintain a non-Jacobin/Royalist majoirty in the councils, the directors interfered with the election results
- Coups of Fructidor (1797) and Floreal (1798) they purged the councils
- Increasing reliance on the army to settle political disputes
- Started with the Thermidorians during the risings of Prairial and Vendemiaire and under the directory under the coup of Fructidor
- Made an army takeover possible.
- Started with the Thermidorians during the risings of Prairial and Vendemiaire and under the directory under the coup of Fructidor
- Safeseats for the directory (EG wealthy notables) alienated by its policies
- In particular forced loans.
- Refused to vote in annual elections or take up posts in local government: Directory had no defence
- Enthusiasm for war had gone: people wanted peace
- War became a necessity for the Directory
- Needed money for the French treasury
- Provide an opportunity to keep ambitious generals and unruly soldiers out of France
- Renewal of war after 1797, produced a flurry of Jacobin activity
- Jacobins secured a forced loan and the Law of Hostages.
- Urban minority but they convinced many that the Directory shouldn't and wouldn't survive
- War became a necessity for the Directory
- Frequent direct action on the constitution, meant people had no respect for the Directory
- Jacobins secured a forced loan and the Law of Hostages.
- Urban minority but they convinced many that the Directory shouldn't and wouldn't survive
- The failure of the Directory
- War became a necessity for the Directory
- Frequent direct action on the constitution, meant people had no respect for the Directory
- Constitution of Year III: annual elections and no provision for settling disputes between the executive and the legislature or changing the constitution in a reasonable way
- The failure of the Directory
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