Directory
The French constitution of 1795, when the executive was vested
in five persons called directors, one of whom retired every year. After
a sickly existence of four years, it was quashed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
An alphabetical list of the inhabitants, etc., of a given locality, as
a “London Directory.”
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