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1790 CE
1795 CE: The French Constitution of Year III is adopted, laying the groundwork for the French Directory.
1795 CE: The French Directory is inaugurated.
1796 CE: The assignat currency is discontinued in Revolutionary France; replaced with the mandat.
1796 CE: General Bonaparte closes the Pantheon Club.
1796 CE: The Conspiracy of Equals is uncovered; Gracchus Babeuf and his compatriots are arrested.
1797 CE: Royalists gain a foothold in the French Directory during its first elections.
1797 CE: Gracchus Babeuf and Augustin-Alexandre Darthé are guillotined.
1797 CE: The bloodless Coup of 18 Fructidor Year V purges royalists from the Directory and paves the way for a Jacobin resurgence.
1797 CE: Austria and France sign the Treaty of Campo Formio, ending the War of the First Coalition.
1799 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte takes control of the government in the Coup of 18 Brumaire; both the Directory and the French Revolution are ended.