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Concept
Council of Ancients
Summary
The Council of Ancients or Council of Elders (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 Council of Ancients was the senior of the two-halves of the republican legislative system. The Ancients were 250 members who could accept or reject laws put forward by the lower house of the Directory, the Council of Five Hundred (Conseil des Cinq-Cents). Each member had to be at least forty years of age, and a third of them would be replaced annually. They had no authority to draft laws, but any bills that they renounced could not be reintroduced for at least a year.
Besides functioning as a legislative body, the Ancients chose five Directors, who jointly held executive power, from the list of names put forward by the Council of Five Hundred. The Council of Ancients had their own distinctive official uniform, with robes, cape and hat, just as did the Council of Five Hundred and the Directors. Under the Thermidorean constitution, as Boissy d'Anglas put it, the Council of Five Hundred was to be the imagination of the Republic, and the Council of Ancients its reason.
The name adopted for the body was based on the French translation/adaptation of the term Senate.
28 October 1795: Claude Antoine Rudel Du Miral (due to age)
28 October 1795 – 2 November 1795: Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux
2 November 1795 – 23 November 1795: Pierre-Charles-Louis Baudin, known as Baudin des Ardennes
23 November 1795 – 22 December 1795: François Denis Tronchet
22 December 1795 – 22 January 1796: Théodore Vernier
22 January 1796 – 20 February 1796: Guillaume François Charles Goupil de Préfelne
20 February 1796 – 21 March 1796: Claude Ambroise Régnier
21 March 1796 – 20 April 1796: Jacques Antoine Creuzé-Latouche
20 April 1796 – 20 May 1796: Jean-Barthélemy Lecouteulx de Canteleu
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