# Directory begins (1795)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1795-directory-begins
Location: Paris

The new executive sought stability but depended increasingly on military power and electoral intervention. Within the broader French Revolution period, The Revolution dismantled legal privilege and absolute monarchy, declared new rights and created a republic. War, popular mobilization, civil conflict and political terror repeatedly transformed the revolutionary state. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is French Directory (Five-man executive). Directory begins is a useful marker in the longer transformation of political authority, society and culture in France. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Directory begins is a useful marker in the longer transformation of political authority, society and culture in France.

Ruler at the time: [French Directory](https://history-france.com/rulers/french-directory)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia topic lookup — Directory begins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Directory+begins&go=Go)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Directory begins](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Directory+begins)
- [Vie-publique — French institutions and history](https://www.vie-publique.fr/)