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Events on Saturday 22 August 1795 1
1795French Constitution of the Year III adoptedNational Convention establishes the DirectoryThe National Convention adopted a new constitution creating a five-member executive Directory and a bicameral legislature, ending the more radical governing arrangements of the Terror. The constitution restricted suffrage to property owners, reflecting a conservative turn in the Revolution. It would govern France until Napoleon Bonaparte's coup in 1799.