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    The Council of Five Hundred (Conseil des Cinq-Cents) was the lower house of the legislature of France under the Constitution of the Year III. It existed...
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    resign, then, second, to get the Council of Ancients and the Council of Five Hundred (the upper and lower houses of the legislature, respectively) to...
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    other branches of government. The new legislature had two houses, a Council of Five Hundred and a Council of Ancients with two hundred fifty members....
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    the establishment of the Directory in 1795, there were two chambers of the French legislature. The lower, the Council of Five Hundred, also had a quickly...
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  • 1798 French legislative election (category 1798 events of the French Revolution)
    1798 to elect one-third of the members of the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients, the lower and upper houses of the legislature, as well...
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    Thermidorians (category Groups of the French Revolution)
    economic themes. After the election of 1795, the Thermidorians obtained the majority in the Council of Five Hundred, the new lower house. In Paris, the...
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    president of the Council of Five Hundred, and another royalist, François Barbé-Marbois becomes president of the Council of Ancients. May 20: A drawing of lots...
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    monarchy and its restoration, was elected President of the Council of Five Hundred. After documentation of Pichegru's treasonous activities was supplied by...
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    Ancients chose five Directors, who jointly held executive power, from the list of names put forward by the Council of Five Hundred. The Council of Ancients...
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  • 1799 French legislative election (category 1799 events of the French Revolution)
    one-third of the members of the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients, the lower and upper houses of the legislature. Following the Coup of 11...
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