The French Revolution, 1789 - 1815:

The Conservative Phase (1797 - 1805)

AP European HistoryAndrostic

2012-2013

Overview

After the terror, the French wanted a more conservative governmentThey will attempt to form a strong republican government

•Instead, they get Napoleon

Topics•The Directory

•The Consulate

The Directory1795-1799

The Directory

Council of Ancients250 Members Selected from 750 Electors

Age 40 & Up

Council of 500Must be a large Prperty Owner

Age 35 & Up

The Directory(5 Man Executive)

StructureWeaknessProblems

Napoleon Bonaparte

• Rise to Fame• Italian Campaign - Treaty of

Campio Formio

• Egyptian Campaign

Coup d’Etat of 1797 (Fructidor)

Royalists (those supporting the exiled King Louis XVIII, living in Vienna) looked to win electionsThe Directory annulled the elections

•Said it was saving the Revolution

•Military victories distracted the public from protest

Now ruling without consent of the Governed!

Coup d’Etat of 1799 (Brumaire)

• Napoleon's fame growing!

• Ineffective Directory

• Coup d'Etat

French Empire in 1800

The Consulate1799 - 1804

The Consulate Reforms

New ConstitutionStabilized the stateEconomic ReformsCentralized power

Coins of the Bank of France, 1800

Concordant of 1801

•Proclaimed Catholicism in France•Bishops still subservient to France•The Church accept loss of lands•Pope Pius VII repudiated it, so Napoleon arrested him

Napoleonic Code

• Civil Code

• Education Reforms

Lycees

Summary

France is slowly edging back towards a monarchy

•The Directory•The Consulate

Napoleon is gaining more and more power•Military Hero•First Consul