Table of Contents

1. 'Nonante-Cinq'; 2. The Conspiracy of the Equals; 3. Royalist delusions; 4. Directorial society: 'Les Gros'; 5. Directorial society: 'Les Maigres'; 6. Education and social welfare; 7. 'Monsieur Dimanche' and 'Citoyen Decadi'; 8. Philosophy and science: The legacy of Condillac; 9. Taste under the Directory; 10. The nation in arms; 11. Administration and the 'conspiracy of indifference'; 12. Economic life; 13. Foreign policy: The Mediterranean dimension; 14. Foreign policy: Profit and propaganda; 15. The coups of floreal and prairial; 16. The First Republic's last coup d'état .

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This book demonstrates that the interval between Robespierre's fall and Bonaparte coming to power was of crucial importance.