HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Maximilien Robespierre, Sans-Culottes, Marquis De Condorcet
5 Dec 2020
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In 1799, napoleon bonaparte ended the directory in a coup d" tat and substituted a strong dictatorship for a weak one. + ten years of upheaval and uncertainty had made firm rule much more appealing than liberty and popular politics. Napoleon soon learned that some prominent members of the legislature were plotting against the directory. The plotters" dissatisfaction stemmed not so much from the. Directory"s ruling dictatorially as from the fact that it was a weak dictatorship. + on november 9, 1799, napoleon and his conspirators ousted the directors. Napoleon was named first consul of the republic, and a new constitution consolidating his position was overwhelmingly approved by a nationwide vote in december 1799. The sans-culottes were the laboring poor and the petty traders of paris, so called because the men wore trousers instead of the knee breeches of the aristocracy and middle class. The word came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
