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The Council of Ancients or Council of Elders (French: Conseil des Anciens) was the upper house of the French legislature under the Constitution of the Year III, during the period commonly known as the Directory (French: Directoire), from 22 August 1795 until 9 November 1799, roughly the second half of the period generally referred to as the French Revolution.
The decree was passed, along with the constitution, on 5 fructidor an III (August 22, 1795). The decree and constitution were then each submitted to a plebiscite and approved on a low turnout, and adopted by the decree of 1st Vendémiaire, An IV (September 23, 1795), proclaiming the French people's acceptance of the constitution presented to ...
22 July – The Second Treaty of Basel is signed between the French First Republic and Spain, ending the War of the Pyrenees. Spain cedes its half of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola to France. 22 August – Constitution of the Year III enacted, establishing the Directory. 25 August – Battle of Trincomalee: British forces capture ...
The new Constitution of the Year III was presented to the Convention and debated between 4 July – 17 August 1795, and was formally adopted on 22 August 1795. It was a long document, with 377 articles, compared with 124 in the first French Constitution of 1793 .
Legislative elections were held in France between 12 and 21 October 1795 (20 to 29 Vendémiaire, Year IV) 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.
The empire of opinion is vast enough for everyone to live within it in peace. [...] Cults, whatever they may be, will have no preference from you. [26] Some of the terms of the Ventôse 3 decree were to be repeated in article 354 of the Constitution of Year III, proclaimed by the Thermidorian Convention on 5 fructidor year III (August 22, 1795):
The Peace of Basel of 1795 consists of three peace treaties involving France during the French Revolution (represented by François de Barthélemy). [1] The first was with Prussia (represented by Karl August von Hardenberg) on 5 April; [2] The second was with Spain (represented by Domingo d'Yriarte) on 22 July, ending the War of the Pyrenees; and
4 June 1795 – 19 June 1795: Jean Denis, comte Lanjuinais: died in 1828 in Paris 19 June 1795 – 4 July 1795: Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray: 25 August 1797 4 July 1795 – 19 July 1795: Louis-Gustave Doulcet de Pontécoulant: 17 November 1764 – 3 April 1853 19 July 1795 – 3 August 1795: Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux: 24 March 1824