. The days of the Directoire . preference for insulting hiscolleagues, made him the most detested man inFrance. None the less was he possessed of highability, of masterful will, and of great businesscapacity; he led his two colleagues, Barras andLarevelliere, and for nearly four years he governedthe Directory while the Directory governed Rewbell, also a member of the ConstituentAssembly and of the Convention, had there affordedthe same guarantees to the Revolution and theRepublic as La Revelliere. During the reign of theJacobins he had been so judicious as not to share theirexcesses a
. The days of the Directoire . preference for insulting hiscolleagues, made him the most detested man inFrance. None the less was he possessed of highability, of masterful will, and of great businesscapacity; he led his two colleagues, Barras andLarevelliere, and for nearly four years he governedthe Directory while the Directory governed Rewbell, also a member of the ConstituentAssembly and of the Convention, had there affordedthe same guarantees to the Revolution and theRepublic as La Revelliere. During the reign of theJacobins he had been so judicious as not to share theirexcesses and to avoid compromising himself withthem. After the 9 Thermidor, he waged war alter-nately on the Terrorists, the Royalists, and therefractory priests. He was a member of the Govern-mental Committees, and he brought to the manage-ment of business a confidence due to his eruditionas a lawyer and his experience as a legislator. But 1 Cambridge Modern History, vol. viii., chap. 16, The Directory,by G. K. Fortescue, pp. 190, JEAN FRANCOIS REWBELLFrom tin Collection of H. II. Raphael, NEW BROOMS 53 he was obstinate, ill-tempered, and excitable ; and attimes, instead of argument, he resorted in discus-sions to a violence of behaviour and speech thataccorded ill with the dignity he was invested had been cast upon his honesty at the time ofthe siege of Mainz, when he had acted as repre-sentative of the people with the armies, and these jsuspicions had never been entirely most prominent, if not the most eminent, of theFive was Barras. Unlike the other Directors, all of whom wereof the middle class, Paul-Francois-Jean-Nicolas deBarras was the cadet of a noble Provencal had served in the army, and when the Revolu-tion broke out, was living the life of a declasse gentle-man in Paris. . Barras was tall and handsome,with a soldier-like frankness of manner and a finevoice. Emerging from a period when coarseness |and vulgarity were part of t
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