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I am bored, so I will make this list.
A list of the currently known Directors of the Estates-General of the Republic of France from my TL, starting from the French victory against Anglo-French forces in the Flammantian Wars to the last chapter on France released so far.
Enjoy.
1576-1584: Jean de Foix (Independent)
1576: No major opposition
1580: No major opposition
A hero of the Flammantian Wars, de Foix led the organized French rebellion against English Catholic dominance during the 15 year long Flammantian Wars, named after the unifying force behind the French - the Flammantian faith, an offshoot of the Reformation. Thanks to a successful Dutch intervention and the capture of King Henry IX in the Battle of Loire in 1573, the war came to a close with a French victory, and the Republic of France was established. de Foix was unanimously elected twice for the position, and while his style of rule was autocratic and not necessarily adherent to French values, the Republic survived him, even if he is still hailed as a hero to this day.
1584-1588: Albertus Saint-Yves (Les Fédéralistes)
1584: Gilebertus Suchet (Foixite), Verain Duret (Independent)
1588-1596: Gilebertus Suchet (Foixite)
1588: Albertus Saint-Yves (Les Fédéralistes), Verain Duret (Liberty), Philippe Gainsbourg (Piety)
1592: Gerard Descombes (Les Fédéralistes), Verain Duret (Liberty), Philippe Gainsbourg (Piety)
1596-1604: Jean-Claude Bardin (Clermont Foixite)
1596: Philippe Sadoul (True Foixite), Jaquemin Boutin (Les Fédéralistes), Sylvain Pichard (Liberty), Herbin Allaire (Heroic)
1600: Philippe Sadoul (Heroic-Foixite), Mathé Genest (True Heroic), Jaquemin Boutin (Les Fédéralistes), Sylvain Pichard (Liberty)
1604-1608: Mathé Genest (Les Fédéralistes)
1604: Godeffroy Choquet (Anti-Habsburg), Sylvain Pichard (Liberty), Victor Ponce (Piety)
1608-1612: Nicolaus Duclos (Pro-Habsburg faction)
1608: Godeffroy Choquet (Anti-Habsburg faction), Mathé Genest (Les Fédéralistes)
1612-1624: Maximilien de Béthune (Anti-Habsburg faction)
1612: Nicolaus Duclos (Pro-Habsburg faction), Jacobus Lalande (Les Fédéralistes)
1616: Thierry Cuvillier (Pacifist), Jacobus Lalande (Les Fédéralistes)
1620: Thierry Cuvillier (Pacifist), Jacobus Lalande (Les Fédéralistes)
Maximilien de Béthune was elected in a tough time - tensions across Europe were rising, especially in the Holy Roman Empire. A fervent Flammantian, de Béthune pushed his country to war against the Habsburgs, supporting the Munich League and conflicting with the Emperor in Italy, which eventually led to the beginning of the Twenty Years' War in 1615. Despite France's main ally, Visegrad, leaving the war after a Lithuanian and later an Ottoman invasion, the French and the Munich league held on and even began to turn the tide, especially thanks to the death of Emperor Ferdinand.
1624-1640: Jean-Baptiste Colbert (Blue Party)
1624: Jean-Pascal Dubuisson (Pacifist), Jacobus Lalande (Les Fédéralistes), Robert Rousseau (Piety)
1628: Jean-Pascal Dubuisson (Pacifist), Philippus Chapelle (Red Party)
1632: Philippus Chapelle (Red Party), Mathé Bescond (Free Party)
1636: Quentin-Delano Bouthillier (Red Party)
Nowadays commonly considered to be one of the greatest Directors of France, Jean-Baptiste Colbert ruled over the nation for an unprecedented four terms, which later even backfired on his newly founded "Blue Party", as the opposition often referred to him as "King Jean-Baptiste I" and ran a smear campaign against his supporters. Colbert oversaw the final victory in the Twenty Years' War and the drafting of the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1630 to establish Europe's postwar borders. His rule saw the beginning of the French Golden Age, a period of unprecedented economic growth, prosperity and French domination over European politics.
1640-1648: Quentin-Delano Bouthillier (Red Party)
1640: Edouard Simon (Blue Party), Amaury Gaumont (Free Party)
1644: Edouard Simon (Blue Party)
1648-1652: Garnerus Charbonnier (Red Party)
1648: Mile Brian (Blue Party)
1652-1660: Christophe Jacquinot (Blue Party)
1652: Garnerus Charbonnier (Red Party)
1656: Clamens Jaubert (Red Party)
1660-1668: Ernest Barthet (Blue Party)
1660: Clamens Jaubert (Red Party)
1664: Hemericus Milhaud (Red Party)
1668-1676: Hemericus Milhaud (Red Party)
1668: Gaétan Rousselot (Blue Party)
1672: Gaétan Rousselot (Blue Party)
1676-1684: Pierre de Foix (Blue Party)
1676: Marc-Antoine Carpentier (Red Party)
1880: Marc-Antoine Carpentier (Red Party)
1684-1688: Husson Philippon (Red Party)
1688: Théophile Caillat (Blue Party)
1692: Théophile Caillat (Blue Party)
1696-1704: Pierre Fatio (Red Party)
1696: Dominique Veil (Blue Party)
1700: Dominique Veil (Blue Party)
Commonly known as the "father of the French colonial empire", Pierre Fatio sought to expand France's colonial holdings in Asia and South Vespucia, which drew the nation to conflict with the Inca Empire.
1704-1712: Dominique Veil (Blue Party)
1704: Aurélien Blaise (Red Party)
1708: Lionel Bachelot (Red Party)
1712-1720: Lionel Bachelot (Red Party)
1712: Pierre-Marie Rochette (Blue Party)
1716: Pierre-Louis Beaumont (Blue Party)
1720-1724: Pierre-Louis Beaumont (Blue Party)
1720: François Carrel (Red Party)
Pierre-Louis Beaumont presided over the French-German War, sparked by a number of border conflicts between France and the HRE, during which French forces soundly defeated the less organized and less numerous Germans within the span of a single year. While this ensured continued French dominance over the region, it created a feeling of revanchism among the Germans, while the French grew to underestimate the power of the HRE.
1724-1728: François Carrel (Red Party)
1724: Pierre-Louis Beaumont (Blue Party)
1728-1736: Didier Diderot (Red Party)
1728: Pierre-Louis Beaumont (Blue Party)
1732: Gilo Camille (Blue Party)
1736-1738: Gilo Camille (Red Party)
1736: Arsène Bourbeau (Blue Party), François Rousseau (Independent)
1738-1746: Jacques Passereau (Red Party)
1738: Arsène Bourbeau (Blue Party), François Rousseau (Independent)
1742: Arsène Bourbeau (Blue Party)
1746-1754: François Rousseau (Blue Party)
1746: Jonathan Pernet (Red Party)
1750: Jonathan Pernet (Red Party)
An independent turned Blue Party member, François Rousseau had to deal with an international crisis as soon as he was elected - this being the Saxon Crisis, where a revolution tore down the old regime and was threatening to devolve into a rebellion across the entirety of the HRE. Rousseau advocated for maintaining peace, and thus he agreed to negotiate with the HRE and the rebellion leaders, working out a bipartisan solution to the crisis. With his moves, he prevented a war, and worked hard to rebuild relations with the HRE.
1754-1758: Jonathan Pernet (Red Party)
1754: Nicolas Neri (Blue Party)
1758-1762: Léopold Barthélemy (Blue Party)
1758: Jonathan Pernet (Red Party)
1762-1770: François Doriot (Red Party)
1762: Paulin Courvoisier (Blue Party)
1766: Lucas Vannier (Blue Party)
A retired general, François Doriot was one of the most anti-German politicians in the nation, and he ascended to the highest position in the nation in a very tough time. Director Doriot threatened with intervention in the Vespucia Free State and quelled a Republican rebellion in Bohemia, and after a brief conflict, his armies occupied the left bank of the Rhine and installed a French emperor in the Holy Roman Empire, which was the direct cause of the Great German Revolution. The election of 1770 arrived before Doriot could intervene in the revolutionary events in Vienna, but he always stayed as a loud supporter for French interventionism.
1770-1776: Arthur Bachelot (Red Party)
1770: Rasse Gérin-Lajoie (Blue Party)
1774: Jean Claude D'Aboville (Blue Party)
A controversial figure in French history, Arthur Bachelot led France during the German Revolutionary Wars. The French army underestimated the Germans, led by the talented Maximilian Schwarzburg, and suffered many major defeats during his first term, and despite a very successful reelection campaign and some bribery and extortion involved, the Red Party failed to acquire a majority in the 1774 election - but neither did the Blues. Bachelot was assigned as Director pro tempore until the war was resolved, which it was in 1776 thanks to a Lithuanian intervention, after which Bachelot was soundly defeated. Not a very competent, but a very conservative and anti-German Director, Bachelot nevertheless stands as one of the most important figures in French history.
1776-1784: Jean Claude D'Aboville (Blue Party)
1776: Arthur Bachelot (Red Party)
1780: Maussart Brosseau (Red Party)
A capable diplomat and a proponent of peace, Jean Claude D'Aboville organized the Paris Conference, which replaced the antiquated Amsterdam System and reorganized Europe with new borders drawn and new states established.
1784-1788: Maussart Brosseau (Red Party)
1784: Cedric de Calais (Blue Party)
1788-1792: Cedric de Calais (Blue Party)
1788: Maussart Brosseau (Red Party)
Cedric de Calais is often called many things - an incapable administrator, a corrupt kleptocrat and others - but it should be noted that many of his perceived faults were created by the increasingly decadent and tiresome system, favoring only two parties, rather than his own personality. de Calais interfered in the Rhineland Referendum, hoping to create a victory for the pro-French movement and integrate the region into France, but not only did it fail, but the knowledge about fraud and bribery in the Rhineland created a public storm in his own nation, a storm that only grew wilder with the Black Weekend, when tons of information about massive widespread corruption, bribery, redrawing constituency lines for easy seats in the Estates-General and numerous other types of fraud from both parties were leaked to the public.
1792-1800: Constantin Gounelle (En Avant)
1792: Cedric de Calais (Blue Party), Francois D'Aboville (Red Party)
1796: Francois D'Aboville (Protectionist), Jérémie Allais (Unionist), Jean-François Bissonnette (New Federalist)
Constantin Gounelle was a lawyer and a statesman, a former member of the Blue Party who was assigned by Cedric de Calais to "investigate" and cover up fraud in the Rhineland, but instead fought against his superior and became the man behind the Black Weekend leaks. Uniting disgruntled politicians, activists and people from all sides of the spectrum, Gounelle formed the Forward movement, which then proceeded to win the 1792 election in a historical upset and became the first third party to win the election in 200 years. The Forwardists reformed the electoral process and created the Constitution of the Republic of France, and many of their Republican ideas live on to this day.
Hopefully I didn't bore you to death
(there are two wikiboxes hidden in this list)
A list of the currently known Directors of the Estates-General of the Republic of France from my TL, starting from the French victory against Anglo-French forces in the Flammantian Wars to the last chapter on France released so far.
Enjoy.
1576-1584: Jean de Foix (Independent)
1576: No major opposition
1580: No major opposition
A hero of the Flammantian Wars, de Foix led the organized French rebellion against English Catholic dominance during the 15 year long Flammantian Wars, named after the unifying force behind the French - the Flammantian faith, an offshoot of the Reformation. Thanks to a successful Dutch intervention and the capture of King Henry IX in the Battle of Loire in 1573, the war came to a close with a French victory, and the Republic of France was established. de Foix was unanimously elected twice for the position, and while his style of rule was autocratic and not necessarily adherent to French values, the Republic survived him, even if he is still hailed as a hero to this day.
1584-1588: Albertus Saint-Yves (Les Fédéralistes)
1584: Gilebertus Suchet (Foixite), Verain Duret (Independent)
1588-1596: Gilebertus Suchet (Foixite)
1588: Albertus Saint-Yves (Les Fédéralistes), Verain Duret (Liberty), Philippe Gainsbourg (Piety)
1592: Gerard Descombes (Les Fédéralistes), Verain Duret (Liberty), Philippe Gainsbourg (Piety)
1596-1604: Jean-Claude Bardin (Clermont Foixite)
1596: Philippe Sadoul (True Foixite), Jaquemin Boutin (Les Fédéralistes), Sylvain Pichard (Liberty), Herbin Allaire (Heroic)
1600: Philippe Sadoul (Heroic-Foixite), Mathé Genest (True Heroic), Jaquemin Boutin (Les Fédéralistes), Sylvain Pichard (Liberty)
1604-1608: Mathé Genest (Les Fédéralistes)
1604: Godeffroy Choquet (Anti-Habsburg), Sylvain Pichard (Liberty), Victor Ponce (Piety)
1608-1612: Nicolaus Duclos (Pro-Habsburg faction)
1608: Godeffroy Choquet (Anti-Habsburg faction), Mathé Genest (Les Fédéralistes)
1612-1624: Maximilien de Béthune (Anti-Habsburg faction)
1612: Nicolaus Duclos (Pro-Habsburg faction), Jacobus Lalande (Les Fédéralistes)
1616: Thierry Cuvillier (Pacifist), Jacobus Lalande (Les Fédéralistes)
1620: Thierry Cuvillier (Pacifist), Jacobus Lalande (Les Fédéralistes)
Maximilien de Béthune was elected in a tough time - tensions across Europe were rising, especially in the Holy Roman Empire. A fervent Flammantian, de Béthune pushed his country to war against the Habsburgs, supporting the Munich League and conflicting with the Emperor in Italy, which eventually led to the beginning of the Twenty Years' War in 1615. Despite France's main ally, Visegrad, leaving the war after a Lithuanian and later an Ottoman invasion, the French and the Munich league held on and even began to turn the tide, especially thanks to the death of Emperor Ferdinand.
1624-1640: Jean-Baptiste Colbert (Blue Party)
1624: Jean-Pascal Dubuisson (Pacifist), Jacobus Lalande (Les Fédéralistes), Robert Rousseau (Piety)
1628: Jean-Pascal Dubuisson (Pacifist), Philippus Chapelle (Red Party)
1632: Philippus Chapelle (Red Party), Mathé Bescond (Free Party)
1636: Quentin-Delano Bouthillier (Red Party)
Nowadays commonly considered to be one of the greatest Directors of France, Jean-Baptiste Colbert ruled over the nation for an unprecedented four terms, which later even backfired on his newly founded "Blue Party", as the opposition often referred to him as "King Jean-Baptiste I" and ran a smear campaign against his supporters. Colbert oversaw the final victory in the Twenty Years' War and the drafting of the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1630 to establish Europe's postwar borders. His rule saw the beginning of the French Golden Age, a period of unprecedented economic growth, prosperity and French domination over European politics.
1640-1648: Quentin-Delano Bouthillier (Red Party)
1640: Edouard Simon (Blue Party), Amaury Gaumont (Free Party)
1644: Edouard Simon (Blue Party)
1648-1652: Garnerus Charbonnier (Red Party)
1648: Mile Brian (Blue Party)
1652-1660: Christophe Jacquinot (Blue Party)
1652: Garnerus Charbonnier (Red Party)
1656: Clamens Jaubert (Red Party)
1660-1668: Ernest Barthet (Blue Party)
1660: Clamens Jaubert (Red Party)
1664: Hemericus Milhaud (Red Party)
1668-1676: Hemericus Milhaud (Red Party)
1668: Gaétan Rousselot (Blue Party)
1672: Gaétan Rousselot (Blue Party)
1676-1684: Pierre de Foix (Blue Party)
1676: Marc-Antoine Carpentier (Red Party)
1880: Marc-Antoine Carpentier (Red Party)
1684-1688: Husson Philippon (Red Party)
1688: Théophile Caillat (Blue Party)
1692: Théophile Caillat (Blue Party)
1696-1704: Pierre Fatio (Red Party)
1696: Dominique Veil (Blue Party)
1700: Dominique Veil (Blue Party)
Commonly known as the "father of the French colonial empire", Pierre Fatio sought to expand France's colonial holdings in Asia and South Vespucia, which drew the nation to conflict with the Inca Empire.
1704-1712: Dominique Veil (Blue Party)
1704: Aurélien Blaise (Red Party)
1708: Lionel Bachelot (Red Party)
1712-1720: Lionel Bachelot (Red Party)
1712: Pierre-Marie Rochette (Blue Party)
1716: Pierre-Louis Beaumont (Blue Party)
1720-1724: Pierre-Louis Beaumont (Blue Party)
1720: François Carrel (Red Party)
Pierre-Louis Beaumont presided over the French-German War, sparked by a number of border conflicts between France and the HRE, during which French forces soundly defeated the less organized and less numerous Germans within the span of a single year. While this ensured continued French dominance over the region, it created a feeling of revanchism among the Germans, while the French grew to underestimate the power of the HRE.
1724-1728: François Carrel (Red Party)
1724: Pierre-Louis Beaumont (Blue Party)
1728-1736: Didier Diderot (Red Party)
1728: Pierre-Louis Beaumont (Blue Party)
1732: Gilo Camille (Blue Party)
1736-1738: Gilo Camille (Red Party)
1736: Arsène Bourbeau (Blue Party), François Rousseau (Independent)
1738-1746: Jacques Passereau (Red Party)
1738: Arsène Bourbeau (Blue Party), François Rousseau (Independent)
1742: Arsène Bourbeau (Blue Party)
1746-1754: François Rousseau (Blue Party)
1746: Jonathan Pernet (Red Party)
1750: Jonathan Pernet (Red Party)
An independent turned Blue Party member, François Rousseau had to deal with an international crisis as soon as he was elected - this being the Saxon Crisis, where a revolution tore down the old regime and was threatening to devolve into a rebellion across the entirety of the HRE. Rousseau advocated for maintaining peace, and thus he agreed to negotiate with the HRE and the rebellion leaders, working out a bipartisan solution to the crisis. With his moves, he prevented a war, and worked hard to rebuild relations with the HRE.
1754-1758: Jonathan Pernet (Red Party)
1754: Nicolas Neri (Blue Party)
1758-1762: Léopold Barthélemy (Blue Party)
1758: Jonathan Pernet (Red Party)
1762-1770: François Doriot (Red Party)
1762: Paulin Courvoisier (Blue Party)
1766: Lucas Vannier (Blue Party)
A retired general, François Doriot was one of the most anti-German politicians in the nation, and he ascended to the highest position in the nation in a very tough time. Director Doriot threatened with intervention in the Vespucia Free State and quelled a Republican rebellion in Bohemia, and after a brief conflict, his armies occupied the left bank of the Rhine and installed a French emperor in the Holy Roman Empire, which was the direct cause of the Great German Revolution. The election of 1770 arrived before Doriot could intervene in the revolutionary events in Vienna, but he always stayed as a loud supporter for French interventionism.
1770-1776: Arthur Bachelot (Red Party)
1770: Rasse Gérin-Lajoie (Blue Party)
1774: Jean Claude D'Aboville (Blue Party)
A controversial figure in French history, Arthur Bachelot led France during the German Revolutionary Wars. The French army underestimated the Germans, led by the talented Maximilian Schwarzburg, and suffered many major defeats during his first term, and despite a very successful reelection campaign and some bribery and extortion involved, the Red Party failed to acquire a majority in the 1774 election - but neither did the Blues. Bachelot was assigned as Director pro tempore until the war was resolved, which it was in 1776 thanks to a Lithuanian intervention, after which Bachelot was soundly defeated. Not a very competent, but a very conservative and anti-German Director, Bachelot nevertheless stands as one of the most important figures in French history.
1776-1784: Jean Claude D'Aboville (Blue Party)
1776: Arthur Bachelot (Red Party)
1780: Maussart Brosseau (Red Party)
A capable diplomat and a proponent of peace, Jean Claude D'Aboville organized the Paris Conference, which replaced the antiquated Amsterdam System and reorganized Europe with new borders drawn and new states established.
1784-1788: Maussart Brosseau (Red Party)
1784: Cedric de Calais (Blue Party)
1788-1792: Cedric de Calais (Blue Party)
1788: Maussart Brosseau (Red Party)
Cedric de Calais is often called many things - an incapable administrator, a corrupt kleptocrat and others - but it should be noted that many of his perceived faults were created by the increasingly decadent and tiresome system, favoring only two parties, rather than his own personality. de Calais interfered in the Rhineland Referendum, hoping to create a victory for the pro-French movement and integrate the region into France, but not only did it fail, but the knowledge about fraud and bribery in the Rhineland created a public storm in his own nation, a storm that only grew wilder with the Black Weekend, when tons of information about massive widespread corruption, bribery, redrawing constituency lines for easy seats in the Estates-General and numerous other types of fraud from both parties were leaked to the public.
1792-1800: Constantin Gounelle (En Avant)
1792: Cedric de Calais (Blue Party), Francois D'Aboville (Red Party)
1796: Francois D'Aboville (Protectionist), Jérémie Allais (Unionist), Jean-François Bissonnette (New Federalist)
Constantin Gounelle was a lawyer and a statesman, a former member of the Blue Party who was assigned by Cedric de Calais to "investigate" and cover up fraud in the Rhineland, but instead fought against his superior and became the man behind the Black Weekend leaks. Uniting disgruntled politicians, activists and people from all sides of the spectrum, Gounelle formed the Forward movement, which then proceeded to win the 1792 election in a historical upset and became the first third party to win the election in 200 years. The Forwardists reformed the electoral process and created the Constitution of the Republic of France, and many of their Republican ideas live on to this day.
Hopefully I didn't bore you to death
(there are two wikiboxes hidden in this list)
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