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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.
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.
Fouché is portrayed by Albert Finney.
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.

Fouché and have
Fouché was likely to be convicted and executed for treason and atheism, since Robespierre himself was about to denounce him in a speech to the Convention, which would have been delivered the day after the coup d ' état ( 28 July ).
In other matters ( especially in that known as the Plot of the Placards in the spring of 1802 ), Fouché was thought to have saved the Jacobins from the vengeance of the Consulate, and Bonaparte decided to rid himself of a man who had too much power to be desirable as a subordinate.
Talleyrand certainly did so in the sphere of diplomacy ; Fouché may occasionally have done so in the sphere of intrigue.
Jimmy Fouché married Jacoba Elizabeth de Villiers (' Elsabé ') Loubser, they have three children: Herculina Johanna (' Hanneline ') Fouché ( married to Eduard Wium (' Eduard ') Mostert ), Cornelia Jacoba (' Coreen ') Fouché ( married to Hendrik van der Merwe (' Merwe ') Scholtz ) and Jacobus Johannes (' Bux ') Fouché.
Koos Fouché married Edé Janse van Rensburg and have two children: Jeanne Fouché and Jacobus Johannes (' James ') Fouché.
The Mémoires of Fouch &# 233 ; ( Paris, 1828-29 ) and those of Fauche-Borel have also been ascribed to him, but in the case of the former it seems certain that he only revised and completed a work really composed by Fouché himself.
Joseph Fouché recalled Napoleon saying before the Peninsular War, " Reflect that the sun never sets in the immense inheritance of Charles V, and that I shall have the empire of both worlds.

Fouché and on
That body sent Fouché with a colleague, Villers, as representatives on mission invested with almost dictatorial powers for the crushing of the revolt of " the whites " ( the royalist colour ).
Fouché went on to Lyon in November with Jean-Marie Collot d ' Herbois to execute the reprisals of the Convention.
Lyon, on 23 November, was declared to be in a " state of revolutionary war " by Collot and Fouché.
A sharp exchange took place between them, and Robespierre tried to expel Fouché from the Jacobin Club on 14 July 1794.
Fouché engineered Robespierre's overthrow, culminating in the dramatic Coup of the 9th Thermidor on 28 July 1794.
Fouché, as both a ruthless suppressor of Federalist rebellion and one of the proponents of Robespierre's overthrow, demonstrated the mercilessness that politics took on in France during the de-Christianization period.
Fouché was a dangerous critic of Robespierre, and his influence undoubtedly contributed to Robespierre's apparent nervous breakdown, which loosened his hold on Parisian politics and the Convention, and ultimately led to his overthrow and execution.
This also brought divisions in the Thermidor group, which soon became almost isolated, with Fouché spending all his energy on countering the attacks of the moderates.
At the moment of his departure, Fouché took the risk of not surrendering to Napoleon all of certain important documents of his former ministry ( falsely declaring that the some had been destroyed ); the emperor's anger was renewed, and Fouché, on learning of this after his arrival to Florence, prepared to sail to the United States.
On the break-up of the Napoleonic system in Germany ( October 1813 ), Fouché was ordered on missions to Rome and thence to Naples, in order to watch the movements of Joachim Murat.
Ironically, Fouché had voted for the death sentence on Louis XVI.
Fouché was portrayed by French actor Gérard Depardieu on the mini-series Napoleon.
He died on 2 October 1982, leaving behind his wife and two sons, Jacobus Johannes (' Jimmy ') Fouché and Jacobus Adriaan Louw (' Koos ') Fouché.
" Fouché went so far as to declare a new civic religion of his own, virtually interchangeable with what would become known as the Cult of Reason, at a ceremony he dubbed the " Feast of Brutus " on 22 September 1793.
Priests were among those drowned in mass executions ( noyades ) for treason under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Carrier ; priests and nuns were among the mass executions at Lyon, for separatism, on the orders of Joseph Fouché and Collot d ' Herbois.

Fouché and overthrow
Fouché, however, was working with his usual energy and plotted Robespierre's overthrow from behind the scenes while in hiding in Paris.
Knowing the unpopularity of the Directors, Fouché joined Bonaparte and Sieyès, who were plotting the Directory's overthrow.

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