. The days of the Directoire . hird votedfor Cambaceres and Larevelliere, but the Conven-tional majority prevailed, and on November i thefive Directors of its choice were elected by theAnciens. Sieyes declined to accept office on the groundthat he was unfitted for the post and was unpopularwith every party. The reason was partly was unfitted to be one among five rulers ;his method was to pronounce his decision epigram-matically; he never condescended to argue or tocompromise ; he had also a strong personal disliketo Rewbell ; and he bore no goodwill to the Constitu-tion which had b
. The days of the Directoire . hird votedfor Cambaceres and Larevelliere, but the Conven-tional majority prevailed, and on November i thefive Directors of its choice were elected by theAnciens. Sieyes declined to accept office on the groundthat he was unfitted for the post and was unpopularwith every party. The reason was partly was unfitted to be one among five rulers ;his method was to pronounce his decision epigram-matically; he never condescended to argue or tocompromise ; he had also a strong personal disliketo Rewbell ; and he bore no goodwill to the Constitu-tion which had been preferred to a scheme of hisown. Carnot, who had been designed for the Ministryof War, was elected in his place; and the Directorywas complete. On November 3 the Directors in-stalled themselves in the Luxembourg Palace andproceeded to appoint their six Ministers. . .******* A brief characterization of each of these five men, 1 Cambridge Modern History, vol. viii., chap. 16, The Directory, byG. K. Fortescue, pp. 489, LOUIS-MARIE-1. A REVELLI ERE-LEPAUXFrom the Collection of H. II. Raphael, Esq., NEW BROOMS 45 who were thus, by the act and choice of the representa-tives of the French people, placed at the helm of stateand established as the executive power, the Directoireexecutif, will fitly close the chapter. Their office gavethem a paramount influence collectively and severallyon the fortunes of France and the destinies of theirfellow-countrymen, and necessarily made them as in-dividuals the most conspicuous figures of the day inthe public eye. It is important, therefore, to form whatbest conception we can arrive at of their dispositionsand idiosyncrasies, their public and private morality,and even their personal appearance and contemporary Thibaudeau, a member himself ofthe Convention and then of the Council of Ancients,and an able and judicious statesman, author of thewell-known Memoires, is an all-important witness begin with Lareve
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