The unexpected fighting Hostile_encounter ability of the newly re-established U.S. Navy , which concentrated Aiming on attacking Attack the French West Indian privateers , together with the growing Expansion weaknesses and final overthrow Change_of_leadership of the ruling French Directory , led Causation Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ( better known as Talleyrand ) to reopen Openness negotiations Communication with the US .

After the Thermidorian Reaction , an executive council known as the Directory assumed Choosing control of the French state in 1795 .

Dogged by charges of corruption , the Directory collapsed Destroying in a coup led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799 .