The Council of Five Hundred was part of the legislative body known as the Corps Legislatif. The lower house of the body was known as the Council of Five Hundred. Its membership included men, who were age thirty or older, and its purpose was to propose legislation, then send it to the Council of Ancients, who were 40 years of age or older, who held veto power.
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The Three Estates.
The revolutionaries in Latin America were encouraged by the French Revolution and the American Revolution.
There are several French Revolutions. Assuming that you are referring to French Revolution of 1789, the people as a whole did not really get a much larger say. However, the leadership shifted from being the monarchy and the nobility to a bourgeoisie dictatorship. The French Revolution of 1823 had few tangible results (this is the French Revolution of Les Miserables). The French Revolution of 1848 was successful in creating the Second Republic of France, which was promptly ended three years later by Napoleon III and the creation of the Second French Empire.
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The three Estates were the First Estate which included the Catholic Clergy, the Second Estate which consisted of the French Nobles and the Third Estate which was the commoners who represented 95 to 97% of the population.