The French Directory agreed with Bonaparte's plans, although a major factor in their decision was a desire to see the politically ambitious Bonaparte and the fiercely loyal veterans of his Italian campaigns as far from France as possible.

" Among the anti-government journals in France, the defeat was blamed on the incompetence of the French Directory and on supposed lingering Royalist sentiments in the Navy.

After Napoleon Bonaparte in November 1799 staged a coup against the Directory government, the French Republic adopted a constitution, which conferred executive powers upon three Consuls, elected for a period of ten years.

During the French Revolution, the unpopularity of the Directory led to riots and rebellions.

After the fall of the Jacobins and the execution of Robespierre, the Directory assumed control of the French state in 1795 and held power until 1799, when it was replaced by the Consulate under Napoleon Bonaparte.

However, many French citizens distrusted the Directory, and the directors could achieve their purposes only by extraordinary means.

The new constitution created the Directory and the first bicameral legislature in French history.

Shortly before Jefferson's election, Napoleon had seized power from the hapless French Directory, which had recently mismanaged France's finances in unsuccessful wars and had lost control of Saint-Domingue ( Haiti ) after a slave rebellion.

* 1795 – The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.

Another example would be the former Soviet Union where only members of the Communist Party were allowed to vote or hold office ; the French First Republic government under the Directory ; and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( only the nobility could vote ).

* 1795 – The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.

* November 9 – Napoleon overthrows the French Directory.

* November 2 – The French Directory takes power.

During the War of the Second Coalition, the French Republic suffered from corruption and internal division under the Directory.

Bonaparte returned from Egypt to France on 23 August 1799, and seized control of the French government on 9 November 1799 in the coup of 18 Brumaire, replacing the Directory with the Consulate.

On 1 October 1795 the former Austrian Netherlands were annexed by France under the French Directory.

Due to internal instability and French military disasters in 1798 and 1799, the Directory only lasted for four years.

As president of the Council of Five Hundred — which he removed to the suburban security of Saint-Cloud — Lucien Bonaparte's combination of bravado and disinformation was crucial to the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire ( date based on the French Revolutionary Calendar ) in which General Bonaparte overthrew the government of the Directory to replace it by the Consulate.

Under the Directory the square was renamed Place de la Concorde as a gesture of reconciliation after the turmoil of the French Revolution.

* PSY-LOG: Psychoanalytic Web Directory ( in French, German and English )

He became librarian successively to the French Directory, to the Conseil d ' Etat, and in 1807 to Napoleon, from whom he carried out a number of commissions.

Through the press, diplomacy, and personal appeals, Lafayette's sympathizers on both sides of the Atlantic made their influence felt, most importantly on the French legislative chambers, Directory, foreign ministry, and army.

In his work The Influence of Monarchs: Steps in a New Science of History Woods investigated 386 rulers in Western Europe from the 12th century till the French revolution in the late 18th century and their influence on the course of historical events.

In 2000, a report by the French parliamentarians, Arnaud Montebourg and Vincent Peillon, alleged that Monaco had lax policies with respect to money laundering, including within its famed casino, and that the government of Monaco had been placing political pressure on the judiciary, so that alleged crimes were not being properly investigated.

When the French Government first investigated the idea of overhauling their system of measurement, Talleyrand, in the late 1780s, acting on Concordet's advice, invited Riggs, a British Parliamentarian and Thomas Jefferson, the American Secretary of State to George Washington, to work with the French in producing an international standard by promoting legislation in their respective legislative bodies.

A version of depth-first search was investigated in the 19th century by French mathematician Charles Pierre Trémaux as a strategy for solving mazes.

Charles Robert Richet ( August 25, 1850 – December 4, 1935 ) was a French physiologist who initially investigated a variety of subjects such as neurochemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing.

As of June 2007, Bongo, along with President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo, Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and José Eduardo dos Santos from Angola was being investigated by the French magistrates after the complaint made by French NGOs Survie and Sherpa due to claims that he has used millions of pounds of embezzled public funds to acquire lavish properties in France.

Along with Ken Coates, Ralph Schoenman, and several others, the tribunal investigated and evaluated American foreign policy and military intervention in Vietnam, following the 1954 defeat of French forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and the establishment of North and South Vietnam.

The earliest record of the word prehistoric comes from the French archaeologist and scientist Paul Tournal who used it in 1831 to describe the finds he made in ancient caves he had investigated in the Bize-Minervois in the south of France.

The killers are thought to be a unit of the secret French police, Renseignements Généraux, who investigated Doucé because of his support for pedophiles.

This family of curves was investigated by Nathaniel Bowditch in 1815, and later in more detail by Jules Antoine Lissajous ( a French name pronounced ) in 1857.

French scientists like Jean-Martin Charcot investigated his abilities, French astronomer Camille Flammarion praised him in strong terms, and Alfred Binet wrote a book on him.

In autumn of 1942, at President Roosevelt's request, Murphy investigated conditions in French North Africa in preparation for the Allied landings-Operation Torch, the first major Allied ground offensive during World War II.

After the news reached the French authorities currently in control of Syria, the report was investigated, and digging on the site was started on December 14, 1933 by archaeologists from the Louvre in Paris.

In December 1998, the French magistrate who investigated Diana's death, Hervé Stephan, wrote to the American secret services to request the 1, 056-page dossier of transcripted calls.

The device was investigated by the French academy of science which also wrote an extensive report on it.

Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy is run by Décrypthon, a collaboration between French Muscular Dystrophy Association, French National Center for Scientific Research and IBM, and Phase 1 investigated protein-protein interactions for 40, 000 proteins whose structures are known, with particular focus on those proteins that play a role in neuromuscular diseases.

The Portuguese Aviation Accidents Prevention and Investigation Department ( GPIAA ) investigated the incident along with Canadian and French authorities.

The situation was investigated by British and French observers and reported to the Entente.

The photographers at the scene of Lady Diana's fatal car accident were investigated for violation of the French law of " non-assistance à personne en danger " ( deliberately failing to provide assistance to a person in danger ), which can be punished by up to 5 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $ 100, 000.