<P> On 3 Prairial the government assembled loyal troops, chasseurs and dragoons, national guardsmen, selected from those "who had fortune to preserve"--20,000 men in all . Faubourg Saint - Antoine was surrounded and on 4 Prairial surrendered and was disarmed . Uncertainty about how to react, hesitancy in action, and lack of revolutionary leadership had doomed the popular movement to throw away its last chance in battle . </P> <P> 4 Prairial Year III is one of the crucial dates of the revolutionary period . The people had ceased to be a political force, participants in history . They were now no more than victims or spectators . </P> <P> The victors now could set up a new constitution, the task the National Convention was originally elected for . The Commission of Eleven (the most notable members of which were Daunou, Lanjuinais, Boissy d'Anglas, Thibaudeau and La Révellière) drafted a text which would reflect the new balance of power . It was presented on 5 Messidor (23 June) and passed on 22 August 1795 (5 Fructidor of the Year III). </P> <P> The new constitution went back to the constitution of 1791 as to the dominant ideology of the country . Equality was certainly confirmed, but within the limits of civil equality . Numerous democratic rights of the constitution 1793--the right to work, to relief, to education--were omitted . The Convention wanted to define rights and simultaneously reject both the privilege of the old order and social leveling . </P>

Describe the government that replaced the national convention