Question

Write short note on Directory ?

Answer 1

Answer:

A new constitution was introduced which denied the vote to non-propertied sections of the society. ...

These then appointed a Directory, an executive made up of five members.

This was meant as a safeguard against the concentration of power in a one man executive as under the Jacobins.

Answer 2

Answer:

The Directory was a five-member committee which governed France from 1795, when it replaced the Committee of Public Safety, until it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the French Consulate. Although it was gradually removed by Napoleon in 1799.