5304821 Uniformed members of the (Directoire), Directory, or Directorate, a five-member committee which governed France from 1795 to 1799 (engraving); (add.info.: Uniformed members of the (Directoire), Directory, or Directorate, a five-member committee which governed France from 1795, when it replaced the Committee of Public Safety. On 9 November 1799, it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the French Consulate. It gave its name to the final four years of the French Revolution. Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai; Louis Revelliere-Lepeaux; Paul Barras; N. Francois de Neufchateau; Jean-Francois Rewbell; Reubell; Reubel; Rewbel); Universal History Archive/UIG.