The figures are all taken from fashion journals. The period includes the last period of the convent, the rule of the board of directors and the beginning of the consulate.
Feminine costumes from 1794 – 1800. Directory to Empire.
Category: Directory
The Directory or Directorate (French: Le Directoire; 26 October 1795 – 24 December 1799) was the last form of government of the French Revolution.
The fashions of the end of the 18th century. After German Journals.
Europe. 18th century. The French influence. Under the reign of terror, the development of fashions began and reached perfection under the direction of the Directorate.
Directoire costume of the Executive Board.
Members of the Executive Directory are accorded full military honours.
Directoire Members of The Council of the Five Hundred.
This Council initiates the laws; it is within this Council that the resolutions which are presented to the Council of Elders are formed.
Directoire Member who constitute the Council of Elders.
Costume of the Members who constitute the Council of Elders.
Bourgeois costumes in France at the time of the Revolution, 1794.
FRANCE – 18TH CENTURY. TRADITIONAL COSTUMES AND INDOOR FURNISHING, 1794.
The Public Walk at the Palais-Royal in 1792
The elegant Parisian society of 1792 in the gardens of the Royal Palace: elegant crowd, gathered under the trees, discussing and courting.
A Lady and a Gallant. France Directoire 1795.
A Lady and a Gallant. France 1795.
Merveilleuse and Incroyable. French fashion of the Directoire.
Marie Therese Louise Lamballe of Savoy, Princess of Carignan.
Princess Lamballe. This illustrious female was one of the most innocent victims of the Revolution
Directoire costumes Paris, 1798.
Directoire costumes imitated from the antique. Paris, 1798.