The rest disperse, and henceforth the check-mated
Parisians are not to take up their guns against the Jacobin faction
whatever it does.
III. A Directory of Regicides.
The Directory chosen among the regicides. - --It selects agents of
its own species. - Leading Jacobins are deprived of their civic
rights. - The Terrorists are set free and restored to their civic
rights. - Example at Blois of these releases and of the new
administrative staff.
Supreme authority is now once more in the hands of the revolutionary
band. - In conformity with its decrees of Fructidor, it first obliges
electors to take two-thirds of their new representatives from the
Convention. And as, notwithstanding its decrees, the electoral
assemblies have not re-elected a sufficient number of the
Conventionalists, it nominates itself, from a list prepared by its
Committee of Public Safety, the one hundred and four which are
lacking: In this way, both in the council of the Five Hundred, as well
as in the council of the Ancients, it secures a clear majority in both
the houses of the Legislative Corps. In the executive branch, in the
Directory, it assures itself of unanimity.
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