1795 French Directory election
The French elections of 1795 were held from 12 October to 4 November 1795 Constitution of the Year III. The elections elected the fifth member of the French Directory, the new collective government of France, and renewed 150 deputies of the French Council of Five Hundred. The rest of the Corps législatif remained unelected, as expressed by the Constitution.
There was a census suffrage, so only 30,000 citizens voted.
The election was narrowly won by the Thermidorians, a faction which managed to win both the directorial and parliamentary majority. The election served as an alarm signal for the Republican political forces, as the monarchists, in a landslide, obtained 87 out of 161 elected seats inside the Legislative Body, as well a sympathizer Director: General Lazare Carnot, formerly a Jacobin and revolutionary chief.
The threat of a return to monarchy, and possibly to the Ancien Régime, finally led to the republican Coup of 18 Fructidor in 1797, which expelled the monarchist opposition from the Legislative Body and banned the royalist circles.Directory election
Legislative election
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