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    Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante, 1st Comte Fouché (French: [ʒozɛf fuʃe]; 21 May 1759 – 25 December 1820) was a French statesman, revolutionary, and Minister...
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    Jacques Hébert, Antoine-François Momoro, Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette, and Joseph Fouché. Considerable debate has always persisted about the religiosity of the...
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  • Fouché or Fouche may refer to: George Fouché, South African race car driver Guy Fouché (1921–1998), French operatic tenor Jacobus Johannes Fouché, former...
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    in 1809 by Emperor Napoleon I upon Joseph Fouché (1759–1820), a French politician and Minister of Police. Fouché had been made a Count of the French...
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    Dichter ihres Lebens. Casanova – Stendhal – Tolstoi) Joseph Fouché, 1929 (Original title: Joseph Fouché. Bildnis eines politischen Menschen) Mental Healers:...
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    Napoleon II (Napoléon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte; 20 March 1811 – 22 July 1832) was the disputed Emperor of the French for a few weeks in 1815....
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    Fouché thought it would be), it was necessary to lull Napoleon's suspicions of the intentions of the Chambers; with which, at the same time, Fouché was...
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  • Denmark. The daughter of Charles Louis Fouché, 6th Duke of Otranto (a descendant of Napoleonic statesman Joseph Fouché) and his first wife, Countess Hedvig...
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    Martial Herman, the officer and engineer Lazare Carnot and the teacher Joseph Fouché, all of whom would hold significance in his later endeavours. His role...
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  • sometimes defined as such. In modern times, the French police officer Joseph Fouché is sometimes regarded as the primary pioneer within secret intelligence...
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    particular interest because he was among political figures such as Joseph Fouché who at first aggressively supported the Terror, only to betray its leaders...
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    Set of Six in 1908 and published by Garden City Publishing in 1924. Joseph Fouché makes a cameo appearance. "Il Conde" (i.e., "Conte" [The Count]): appeared...
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    convincing the Deputies. Fouché and Réal would assure that there would be no interference from the police or the city of Paris. Fouché proposed that the leading...
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    Maurice de Talleyrand-Périogord, Bonaparte's foreign minister, and Joseph Fouché, Bonaparte's minister of police who had warned that "the air is full...
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    figures of Thermidor include Paul Barras, Jean-Lambert Tallien, and Joseph Fouché. Conspiracies against Robespierre, who had dominated the Committee of...
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  • monarch in the Christian world; / The sun in my dominion never sets."). Joseph Fouché recalled Napoleon saying before invading Spain and starting the Peninsular...
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    April 8: Robespierre makes accusations against the Convention delegate Joseph Fouché at a meeting of the Jacobins. April 10: The members of the alleged Conspiracy...
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    Henri Gatien Bertrand (1811–12), Jean-Andoche Junot (1812–13), and Joseph Fouché (1813–14). Marmont pushed the Code Napoléon throughout the area and...
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  • Paquita is a ballet in two acts and three scenes originally choreographed by Joseph Mazilier to music by Édouard Deldevez and Ludwig Minkus. Paul Foucher received...
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    Armand-Gaston Camus refused the office. The most famous minister was Joseph Fouché, whose service spanned over a decade. It was a major French ministerial...
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  • who were representatives on a mission recalled to Paris (Paul Barras, Joseph Fouché, Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron, and Jean-Lambert Tallien). The Plain...
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    Alain Chabat Ruy Blas Don Salluste Jacques Weber TV movie Napoléon Joseph Fouché Yves Simoneau Miniseries 2003 Nathalie... Bernard Anne Fontaine Have...
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    18th-century financier Jean Joseph de Laborde, on rue d'Artois in Paris (No. 19-21). That property had been owned by Joseph Fouché, and purchased from him...
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    1794, when its members—led by Paul Barras, Jean-Lambert Tallien and Joseph Fouché — ousted Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, who...
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    due to its alleged dietary benefits. It has been speculated that, "Joseph Fouché, who served as Minister of Police in Paris from 1799 to 1815, had records...
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    Governing Committees. Although he only accused three deputies by name (Pierre-Joseph Cambon, François René Mallarmé, and Dominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret), his...
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    criticized by Vadier, Barère, Courtois and Fouché, members of the Committee of General Security. Joseph Fouché had predicted to him his approaching fall...
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    For some time Charlotte de Robespierre is supposed to be betrothed to Joseph Fouché, but he moved to Nantes where he married in September 1792. In 1789...
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  • Barthélemy. 1822. p. 426. Retrieved 2 December 2024. Fouché, Joseph (1896). The memoirs of Joseph Fouche, duke of Otranto Volume 2. H S Nichols. p. 303. Retrieved...
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    of The New Justine and Juliette were seized and the police minister Joseph Fouché ordered Sade's detention without trial as he believed the pornography...
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