The law requires three Directors to make a Directory.

You are but two, and, as you said just now, whoever resists the law is a rebel." Then handing the paper to the president, he continued: "Add the citizen Barras' resignation to that of citizens Sieyes and Ducos, and proclaim the fall of the Directory.

I will announce it to my soldiers." Moulins and Gohier were confounded.

Barras' resignation sapped the foundations of all their plans.

Bonaparte had nothing further to do at the Council of Ancients, but there still remained much to be done in the court of the Tuileries.