The Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig wrote a biography of Fouché, entitled Joseph Fouché.

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.

The Chamber voted oppressive laws, sentencing to death Marshal Ney and general la Bédoyère, while 250 people were given prison sentences and some others exiled ( Joseph Fouché, Lazare Carnot, Cambacérès ).

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.

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A quintessential political opportunist, Joseph Fouché served many masters, all with the same calculating guile.

His career is of particular interest because he was among political figures such as Joseph Fouché who at first aggressively supported the Terror, only to betray its leaders ( including Maximilien Robespierre ) and support the various conservative reactionary régimes that followed.

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.

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.

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.

While exposing an unrealistic intrigue in which the duchesse de Guiche was the chief agent, Fouché took care that she should escape.

Either Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe ( deputy from Meurthe in the Corps législatif ) or Napoleon's chief of police, Joseph Fouché, said about his execution " C ' est pire qu ' un crime, c ' est une faute ", a statement often rendered in English as " It was worse than a crime ; it was a blunder.

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 ).

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.

However, early in June 1794, at the time of Robespierre's " Festival of the Supreme Being ", Fouché ventured to mock the theistic revival which Robespierre then inaugurated.

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.

Fouché was careful to temper Napoleon's more arbitrary actions, which at times won him the gratitude even of the royalists.

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.

Fouché did become a senator and took half of the reserve funds of the police which had accumulated during his tenure of office.

His police agents were ubiquitous, and the terror which Napoleon and Fouché inspired partly accounts for the absence of conspiracies after 1804.

While engaged in the campaign of Spain, the emperor heard rumours that Fouché and Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, once bitter enemies, were having meetings in Paris during which Joachim Murat, King of Naples, had been approached.

In that year Fouché received the title of Duke of Otranto, which Bonaparte created-under the French name Otrante-a duché grand-fief ( a rare, hereditary, but nominal honor ) in the satellite Kingdom of Naples.

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 ".

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.

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.

" 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.

Born in the Boer republic of the Orange Free State ( which became a British colony in 1902 and a province of the Union of South Africa in 1910 ), Fouché was a successful farmer.

Beauchamp commenced his Histoire de la Vendée et des Chouans ( three volumes, Paris, 1806 ), which depicted the cruelties of the Fouché regime.

" 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.

The day passed eventfully enough, with a constant stream of visitors, some stopping only to say hello, others getting into serious conversations, such as one Andre Fuchs, a free-lance journalist from Strasbourg who wrote an article for the Nouvelle Alsatian in highly sympathetic terms.

Consequently, on October 31, 1896, Mrs. King wrote to Thompson, quite against her daughter's wishes, asking him not to `` recommence a correspondence which I believe has been dropped for some weeks ''.

I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.

'' Private Jenkins Lloyd Jones of the Wisconsin Light Artillery wrote in his diary: `` I strolled among the Alabamans on the right, found some of the greenest specimens of humanity I think in the universe, their ignorance being little less than the slave they despise with as imperfect a dialect.

The governor wrote Miss Grant that he has been concerned for some time `` with the continuous problem which confronts our local and state law enforcement officers as a result of the laws regulating Sunday sales ''.

A notable example is Emanuel Swedenborg who wrote some 18 theological works which describe in detail the nature of the afterlife according to his claimed spiritual experiences, the most famous of which is Heaven and Hell.

Abby May wrote in her journal on January 17, 1843, " A day of some excitement, as Mr. Alcott refused to pay his town tax ... After waiting some time to be committed jail, he was told it was paid by a friend.

He wrote the grammatical rules for the Vulgate Latin spoken by some illiterates in Europe at his time.

When the press expanded to current titles, they wrote some books themselves and employed other writers, including Erasmus.

It is unlikely that Alexander wrote all of the Quaestiones, some may be Alexander's own explanations, while others may be exercises by his students.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

There is also some evidence that, during his old age, he wrote plays in the style of New Comedy.

According to the Suda he wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments including some 130 titles survive.

The word is attested in Herodotus, who wrote some of the first surviving Greek prose, but this may not have been before 440 or 430 BC.

Jarry once wrote, expressing some of the bizarre logic of ' pataphysics, " If you let a coin fall and it falls, the next time it is just by an infinite coincidence that it will fall again the same way ; hundreds of other coins on other hands will follow this pattern in an infinitely unimaginable fashion ".

Until recent years, few people without some genuine claim to fame wrote or published autobiographies for the general public.

He wrote another book, Maxims of the Roman Law and some of the Ancient French Law, as Expounded and Applied in Doctrine and Jurisprudence.

Yet archaeologists have increasingly come to incorporate many of the insights from archaeoastronomy into archaeology textbooks and, as mentioned above, some students wrote archaeology dissertations on archaeoastronomical topics.

Bede wrote some works designed to help teach grammar in the abbey school.

Marlborough ’ s horse tumbled and the Duke was thrown – " Milord Marlborough was rid over ," wrote Orkney some time later.

Bede wrote in Latin and never used the term and his list of kings holding imperium should be treated with caution, not least in that he overlooks kings such as Penda of Mercia, who clearly held some kind of dominance during his reign.

In c. 409 AD, Augustine of Hippo wrote to Deogratias concerning the challenge of some to the miracle recorded in the Book of Jonah.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

He next wrote his two violin sonatas ( written in 1921 and 1922 respectively ), which are harmonically and structurally some of his most complex pieces.