French Directoire
(1795–99) Government set up during the French Revolution by the
Legislative power was placed in the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients, while executive power was placed in a five-member Directory. Though the Directors nominally inherited many of the powers of the Committee of Public Safety , they had no funds to finance their projects or courts to enforce their will. The regime was marked by administrative chaos and corruption and by the uprisings in the Vendée . It was overthrown in Napoleon 's Coup of 18–19 {{link=Brumaire, Coup of 18%E2%80%9319">Brumaire .