Provisional Executive Council

The Privosorische Executive Council (French: conseil exécutif provisoire ) was the name of the government in the first French republic from August 10, 1792 to April 20, 1794.

With the suspension of Louis XVI. on August 10, 1792, the Kingdom of France became a republic for the first time. The parliament as legislature elected six personalities, the majority of whom came from the political camp of the Girondins ( Second Cabinet of the Gironde ). These now formed the highest executive in the country. An important turning point in the history of this government was the 2nd of June 1793 when the Parisian sans-culottes achieved the arrest of the leaders of the Gironde in a revolt. Then a mostly Jacobin cabinet was formed.

With the law of 12th Germinal II (April 1st, 1794), the executive council was dissolved and replaced by executive commissions (French: commissons exécutives ). The law was implemented 19 days later with the removal of the six incumbent ministers.