Talk:French Directory

message: I have now (basically) fixed a cut-and-paste move and restored the history of this article. As usual, there are a few glitches: a few "redirect" states show up as part of the history of the article.
But, on top of that, I think the move was ill-advised. This is particularly so because French Directory was part of an article series about the French Revolutionary era, and was not just about the institution itself but about a period in French history that is usually referred to (after that institution) as the Directory or (in French) Directoire. 
I would like to put the French Directory material back at French Directory. We can have a separate page Italian Directories, and can add disambiguations as needed.
If we decide to leave things as they now are, there are a bunch of double-redirects that will need to be fixed. But, please, no one start on that until we actually have consensus. I will certainly not do anything precipitous in the next 48 hours, and hope that others will not, either. -- Jmabel | Talk 03:06, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent move 

message: "The Thermidorian Convention continued until October 26, 1795 (4 Brumaire Year IV), when the National Convention was succeeded by the French Directory." - (Under subtitle: End of Reaction) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermidorian_Reaction
"Executive Directory (in French Directoire exécutif), commonly known as the Directory (or Directoire) held executive power in France from November 2, 1795 until November 10, 1799" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Directory
As one can see there are two different dates for the beginning of the Directory. Which one is the correct date? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.25.116.145 (talk • contribs) 7 April 2006
: I'm not certain, but I believe there was a gap. There had been an even larger (and very chaotic) gap between the Legislative Assembly and the Convention. - Jmabel | Talk 01:17, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date Discrepancy 

message: This article contains many statements of questionable neutrality. Just a sample:
"In all these countries, they organised such an effective pillage that the French became universally hated.
As the armies were far below the strength required by the policy of unbounded conquest and rapine, the first permanent law of conscription was passed in the summer of 1798. The attempt to enforce it caused a revolt of the peasants in the Belgian departments. The priests were held responsible and some eight thousand were condemned to deportation en masse, although the much greater part escaped by the goodwill of the people. Few soldiers were obtained by the conscription, for the government was as weak as it was tyrannical."
"The French lacked any real political freedom, yet also lacked the ease or security which enlightened despotism can bestow. The Terrorists lifted their heads in the Council of Five Hundred. A Law of Hostages, which was really a new Law of Suspects, and a progressive income tax showed the temper of the majority. The Jacobin Club re-opened and became once more the focus of disorder."
At the very least, the article should be edited for neutrality. It would be good to include more sources and replace the many judgments of the Directory here with researched facts. -Thucydides411 (talk) 19:08, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No actual discussion of this in more than a year so removing tag; also moved thread into proper chrono order. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 23:02, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Reading the actual text, see the basis for the tagging though. Nonetheless, I think the POV is more or less that of the actual historical truth. Added tone which I guess is the actual issue. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 23:16, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality

message: What's the use of all those lang="fr" span tag attributes throughout the code ? What do they accomplish ? --Jerome Potts (talk) 06:18, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  &lt;span lang="fr"&gt;La Révellière Lépeaux&lt;/span&gt; 

message: My suggested move of the title of this article to Directoire (the same title as the French WP article) has been rejected . 'French Directory' is comical - certainly not a well-known anglicization. No-one would be able to guess what it means. Is there another possibility? This article should be searchable/accessible to the reader. --Kleinzach 12:52, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No response after two years? I would like to re-propose a change to  Directoire. --Kleinzach 08:37, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Support –  Rushing to your side belatedly :) I fully agree: I always thought the redirect Directory (France) was a more wikified title than "French Directory", but Directoire would indeed be the most appropriate. SteveStrummer (talk) 16:52, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I've made the request (below). Kleinzach 08:28, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  I also hope the change is made soon, to plain 'Directoire'. I just made a google search with 'Directoire' and was quite startled to end up with 'French Directory'. I don't think I had ever seen that one before.--Lubiesque (talk) 11:59, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title of this article 

message: I notice the addition that Carnot was the only director with "a reputation for leadership or political sagacity." I think this is a bit misleading because it's not like he dominated the group. The cheerful dwarf (talk) 05:40, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Right, Carnot was moving right and at the end very close to royalists and had so much "sagacity" that did not know what was coming on 18 Fructidor and had to flee. Another "nice" line "Rewbell, Barras and La Révellière Lépeaux were Jacobin radicals; Carnot and Le Tourneur were moderates". Rewbell, Barras were Jacobin radicals??!! And another - "Gottschalk says that except for Lazare Carnot, none of the members of the Directory was particularly able"??Nivose (talk) 02:17, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, it's an odd claim, I've removed it from the lede. —Nizolan (talk) 12:42, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carnot 

message: Presidentship was on a rotation basis for three months, by each of the directors. Please see  France: Presidents of the Executive Directory: 1795-1799. Paul Barras just happened to be the only director to serve during the full term of the directorate. 
--Prabhachatterji (talk) 12:09, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: President of the Directory

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