This is supposedly based on an account by Joseph Fouché, the Parisian chief of police, but the supposed book by Fouché is impossible to trace.

Joseph Fouché ( Guy Favière ) tells Joséphine that the noise of the fighting is Napoleon " entering history again ".

Perhaps at the urging of < span lang =" fr "> Talleyrand </ span >, Napoleon's foreign minister, and < span lang =" fr "> Fouché, Napoleon </ span >' s minister of police who had warned that " the air is full of daggers ", the First Consul came to the political conclusion that the Duke must be dealt with.

" It is through events like this that made Fouché infamous as " The Executioner of Lyons.

" Fouché, claiming that " Terror, salutary terror, is now the order of the day here .... We are causing much impure blood to flow, but it is our duty to do so, it is for humanity's sake ," called for the execution of 1, 905 citizens.

Fouché is reported to have worked furiously on the overthrow:

When, during the absence of Napoleon in the Austrian campaign of 1809, the British Walcheren expedition threatened the safety of Antwerp, Fouché issued an order to the préfet of the northern départments of the Empire for the mobilization of 60, 000 National Guards, adding to the order this statement: " Let us prove to Europe that although the genius of Napoleon can throw lustre on France, his presence is not necessary to enable us to repulse the enemy ".

Shortly before his arrival in Paris ( 19 March 1815 ), Louis XVIII sent Fouché an offer of the ministry of police, which he declined: " It is too late ; the only plan to adopt is to retreat ".

Famous ( or rather infamous ), is the conversation between Fouché and ( also proscribed ) Lazare Carnot, who had been interior minister during the hundred days ' period:

Fouché also appears as one of the main characters in For The King, a novel by Catherine Delors ( Dutton, 2010 ), where his role in the Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise is discussed.

Fouché was featured as one of the two main ( and only ) characters in the play by Jean-Claude Brisville Supping with the Devil in which he is depicted dining with Talleyrand while deciding how to preserve their respective power under the coming regime.

In Mountolive ( 1958 ), the third novel of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, a French diplomat is said to have ( ironically ) complimented the cruel and venal Egyptian Minister of the Interior, Memlik Pasha, by telling him that he is "... regarded as the best Minister of Interior in modern history -- indeed, since Fouché there has been no-one to equal you.

" Memlik is so taken with the comparison that he orders a bust of Fouché from France, which then sits in his reception room gathering dust.

In the Richard Sharpe series of historical novels, set during the Napoleonic Wars, Fouché is mentioned as an early mentor of Sharpe's bitter enemy Pierre Ducos, a French spymaster.

Fouché is a significant character in The Carton Chronicles: The Curious Tale of Flashman's true father ( 2010 ) by Keith Laidler

In the 1949, Hollywood historical drama Reign of Terror, Fouché is played by Arnold Moss.

However, Hesse is overthrown by Napoleon, and Minister of Police Joseph Fouché takes over.

Joseph Conrad portrayed Fouché briefly in his short story The Duel ( 1924 ), which was filmed in 1977 as The Duellists, written by Gerald Vaughan-Hughes and directed by Ridley Scott.

Fouché was portrayed by French actor Gérard Depardieu on the mini-series Napoleon.

Napoleon made him Minister of the Interior under the Consulate, which enabled Lucien to falsify the results of the plebiscite but which brought him into competition with Joseph Fouché, the chief of police, who showed Napoleon a subversive pamphlet that was probably written by Lucien, and effected a breach between the brothers.

Pomona, by Nicolas Fouché, c. 1700

With the abdication of Napoleon the provisional government led by Fouché appointed Davout, Napoleon ’ s minister of war, as General in Chief.

In October 1790, he was transferred by the Oratorians to their college at Nantes, in an attempt to control his advocacy of revolutionary principles-however, Fouché became even more of a democrat.

The crisis which resulted from the declaration of war by the Convention against Great Britain and the Dutch Republic ( 1 February 1793, see French Revolutionary Wars ), and a little later against Spain, made Fouché famous as one of the Jacobin radicals holding power in Paris.

Lyon, on 23 November, was declared to be in a " state of revolutionary war " by Collot and Fouché.

Fouché, sensitive to their outcry, obliged them by ordering the executions moved out of the city to the Brotteaux field, along the Rhône.

In the ensuing Directory government ( 1795 – 1799 ), Fouché remained at first in obscurity, but the relations he had with the far left, once headed by Chaumette and now by François-Noël Babeuf, helped him to rise once more.

This far more serious attempt ( in which conspirators exploded a bomb near the First Consul's carriage with results disastrous to the bystanders ) was soon seen by Fouché as the work of Royalists.

On the proclamation of Bonaparte as First Consul for life ( 1 August 1802 ) Fouché was deprived of his office, a blow softened by the suppression of the ministry of police and by the attribution of most of its duties to an extended Ministry of Justice.

Nevertheless, Napoleon did retain feelings of distrust, or even of fear, towards Fouché, as was proven by his conduct in the early days of 1808.

The Marquis de Lafayette and Louis Nicolas Davout were involved in the issuer, but their refusal to take the course desired by Fouché and others led to nothing being done.

Fouché appears as a recurring character in the Roger Brook series of historical novels by Dennis Wheatley.

* Helen Fouché Gaines, " Cryptanalysis ", 1939, Dover.

* Helen Fouché Gaines, “ Cryptanalysis ”, 1939, Dover.

* December 25 – Joseph Fouché, French statesman ( b. 1763 )

* May 21 – Joseph Fouché, French statesman ( d. 1820 )

Talleyrand was again influential in seeing that the Bourbons reigned, as was Fouché, Napoleon's minister of police during the Hundred Days.

* Joseph Fouché, 1929 ( Original title: Joseph Fouché.

Under the French name of Otranto it was created a duché grand-fief de l ' Empire in the Napoleonic kingdom of Naples for Joseph Fouché, Napoleon's minister of Police ( 1809 ), the grandfather of Margareta Fouché.

* Helen Fouché Gaines, " Cryptanalysis ", 1939, Dover.

When it became evident, in mid-July 1794, that Robespierre and Saint-Just were planning to strike against their political opponents Joseph Fouché, Jean-Lambert Tallien, and Marc-Guillaume Alexis Vadier – the latter two were members of the Committee of General Security – the fragile truce within the government was dissolved.

In this extremity, < span lang =" fr "> Sieyès </ span > chose as minister of police the old Terrorist < span lang =" fr "> Joseph Fouché </ span >, who best understood how to deal with his brethren.

< span lang =" fr "> Fouché </ span > closed the Jacobin Club and deported a number of journalists.

* Helen Fouché Gaines, “ Cryptanalysis ”, 1939, Dover.

Having paid a visit to Paris in 1799, he was introduced to Joseph Fouché, minister of police, whose private secretary he became.

On 25 June he received from Fouché, the president of the newly appointed provisional government ( and Napoleon's former police chief ), an intimation that he must leave Paris.

Prominent figures of Thermidor include Paul Barras, Jean-Lambert Tallien and Joseph Fouché.

) Some authors argue that the then leftist Joseph Fouché played a large role in the conspiracy.

In the end, through the interventions of Joseph Fouché and Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, he was appointed consul at Alicante, and remained there until he lost the sight of one eye from yellow fever.