UIG5634409 Uniformed members of the (Directoire), Directory, or Directorate by French School, (18th century); (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.).