Explain the following term:-
• Directory
(on the basis of chapter - the French Revolution)
Answers
a five-member committee that governed France from 2 November 1795, when it replaced the Committee of Public Safety, until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire, and replaced by the French Consulate. It gave its name to the final four years of the French Revolution.
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According to the chapter French Revolution of class 9th , NCERT , "Directory" was an executive body of five members. Directory was appointed by two elected legislative councils.
In brief , the directory was a five member committee which governed France when the political power was passed into the hands of welfare middle class. It was meant as a safeguard against the concentration of power in the hands of one man executive as under the jacobins.