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Joseph Fouché
Joseph Fouché, 1st Duke d'Otrante, 1st Count Fouché was a French statesman, revolutionary, and Minister of Police under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte. Fouché later became a subordinate of Emperor Napoleon. He was particularly known for the ferocity with which he suppressed the Lyon insurrection during the Revolution in 1793. But he also was a highly competent minister of police under the Directo…
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politics · French statesman, revolutionary and police chief (1763–1820) · politician · essayist · lawyer · teacher · envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary · duke · also Joseph Fouché, Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante, Fouché
Born 21 May 1759 · Died 26 December 1820 · Q216958
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
ActuaLitté: Mémoires de Joseph Fouché, duc d'Otrante, ministre de la Police Générale
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2023· 2 entries
Ouest-France: Le 16 septembre 1792, Joseph Fouché se mariait en l’église Saint-Nicolas
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MutualArt.com: Joseph Fouche
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2022· 1 entry
RTBF: Joseph Fouché, traître à Napoléon à de multiples reprises, mais toujours rappelé au pouvoir
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2014· 1 entry
Atlantico: Joseph Fouché : une biographie magistrale
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1992· 1 entry
Directed by Édouard Molinaro, starring Claude Rich and Claude Brasseur
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1977· 1 entry
As The Duellists, written by Gerald Vaughan-Hughes and directed by Ridley Scott
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1934· 1 entry
At which Himmler asks Reck for information
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1820· 1 entry
Died 1820-12-26.
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1816· 1 entry
The royalist authorities found Fouché's further services useless, and he was proscribed as a regicide
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1815· 1 entry
Served as President of the Executive Commission, which was the provisional government of France installed after the abdication of Napoleon
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1814· 1 entry
Fouché had joined the invading allies and conspired against Napoleon
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1812· 1 entry
Attempted in vain to turn Napoleon from the projected invasion of Russia, and on the return of the emperor in haste from Smarhoń to Paris at the close of that year, the ex-minister of police was suspected of involveme
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1805· 1 entry
When the invasion of England was planned, portrays Fouché scheming and counter-scheming various complicated plots
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1759· 1 entry
Born 1759-05-21.
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