The Directory and the Council of Ancients

This was alarming to the remaining committed republicans in the directory. One more election like that and the royalists would actually have working majorities. The council of 500 elected newly minted delegate, general peshigre to be their president. Pechigre still enjoyed the glow that came from being the man who had conquered the nether ands. And his treasonous correspondence with louis the eighteenth was merely suspected at the highest levels.