Examples of 'council of five hundred' in a sentence

Meaning of "council of five hundred"

The Council of Five Hundred was a government assembly in Ancient Athens. It consisted of 500 members chosen by lot from the general citizen body. The council had various functions, including proposing and debating legislation, preparing the agenda for the Assembly, and overseeing the executive branch of the government

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council of five hundred
Council of five hundred.
His moderation caused his election by seventeen départements to the Council of Five Hundred.
The Council of five hundred Elders.
Villaret was then elected at the Council of Five Hundred.
The Council of Five Hundred was given the Palais Bourbon as its future meeting place.
Napoleon 's reception by the Council of Five Hundred was even more hostile.
The second important institution was the boule, or Council of Five Hundred.
A motion was raised in the Council of Five Hundred to declare Napoleon an outlaw.
During the Directory, he was a member of the Council of Five Hundred.
I went to the Council of Five Hundred alone, unarmed, my head uncovered.
In the spring of 1798 Dessaix was elected a member of the Council of Five Hundred.
In 1798 he entered the Council of Five Hundred as deputy for Corsica.

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