. The days of the Directoire . ial party in the Chambers, inopposition to the no less influential Club de Clic/iy, therallying point of the more extreme section of theConstitutionalists, especially in the Council of FiveHundred, led by such men as Boissy dAnglas, Pichegruand Camille Jordan, pledged to direct hostility to thethree Directors and aiming at the immediate repeal ofall revolutionary legislation. The meetings of theCercle Constilutionnel (the name, by the by, is confusing;in spite of its title, it was the club of the Conventional-ist party, in opposition to the Constitutionalists) we
. The days of the Directoire . ial party in the Chambers, inopposition to the no less influential Club de Clic/iy, therallying point of the more extreme section of theConstitutionalists, especially in the Council of FiveHundred, led by such men as Boissy dAnglas, Pichegruand Camille Jordan, pledged to direct hostility to thethree Directors and aiming at the immediate repeal ofall revolutionary legislation. The meetings of theCercle Constilutionnel (the name, by the by, is confusing;in spite of its title, it was the club of the Conventional-ist party, in opposition to the Constitutionalists) wereheld in the ci-devant Hotel de Salm, referred to inchapter 10 above, in our day the Palais de la LegiondHonneur on the Quai dOrsay ; Sieves and Madamede Stael were leading spirits. A woman already famous for her wit and in-tellect, and now no less so for her intrigues, Madamede Stael had first introduced Talleyrand at the Courtof Barras and secured his admission to the Directorsintimacy. He was the soul and mouthpiece in the. MADAME DE STAELFrom an illustration in Juniper Hall by Constance Hill CARNOT AND BARRAS 291 Councils of the majority of the Directoire. BenjaminConstant, another friend of Madame de Stael, was theorator of the faction. These three played an all-important part in the coming indecision at this crisis is difficult to explain ;but apparently his unlooked-for consent to theseappointments was due to a sincere desire for peace was become impossible, and presently furtherdevelopments, the retention of the two RevolutionaryMinisters, Merlin and Ramel, and the dismissal of thethree Constitutionalists, Benezech, Petiet, and Cochon,a violently partisan policy still further accentuated bythe selection of Scherer, a special protege of Rewbells,for the Ministry of War, made a final and decisivebreach inevitable between the two and the threeDirectors, and between their enemies and their friends,the majority and the minority, in the Legislature.
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