The Corps législatif was a part of the French legislature during the French Revolution and beyond.
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The Corps législatif was a part of the French legislature during the French Revolution and beyond. It is also the generic French term used to refer to any legislative body. The Constitution of the Year I foresaw the need for a corps législatif. During the period of the French Directory, beginning in 1795, the Corps législatif referred to the bicameral legislature of the Conseil des Cinq-Cents (Council of Five Hundred) and the Conseil des Anciens (Council of Ancients). Later, under Napoleon's Consulate, the Constitution of the Year VIII (1800) set up a Corps législatif as the law-making body of the three-part government apparatus (alongside the Tribunat and the Sénat Conservateur).