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Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d ' Otrante ( 21 May 1759 Le Pellerin, near Nantes, France – 25 December 1820 Trieste, then part of the Austrian Empire, now Italy ) was a French statesman and Minister of Police under Napoleon Bonaparte.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Joseph Fouché ( Guy Favière ) tells Joséphine that the noise of the fighting is Napoleon " entering history again ".
Having paid a visit to Paris in 1799, he was introduced to Joseph Fouché, minister of police, whose private secretary he became.
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.
His mother was Marie Françoise Croizet ( 1720 – 1793 ), and his father was Julien Joseph Fouché ( 1719 – 1771 ).
A quintessential political opportunist, Joseph Fouché served many masters, all with the same calculating guile.
Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d ' Otrante, was a son of Julien Joseph Fouché ( 1719 – 1771 ) and wife Marie Françoise Croizet ( 1720 – 1793 ).
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In Latin texts, on the other hand, Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to find any conflation of Apollo with Sol among the Augustan poets of the 1st century, not even in the conjurations of Aeneas and Latinus in Aeneid XII ( 161 – 215 ).
The likelihood of a 1st century tomb being built to the west of the city is questionable, as according to the late 1st century Rabbinic leader, Akiva ben Joseph, quoted in the Mishnah, tombs should not built to the west of the city, as the wind in Jerusalem generally blows from the west, and would blow the smell of the corpses and their impurity over the city, and the Temple Mount.
Since the reform of the Catholic Calendar, May 1st is the Feast of St Joseph the Worker, the patron saint of workers.
The English commentator Thomas Hayne claimed that the prophecies of the Book of Daniel had all been fulfilled by the 1st century (‘ Christs Kingdom on Earth ’, 1645 ), and Joseph Hall expressed the same conclusion concerning Daniel ’ s prophecies (‘ The Revelation Unrevealed ’, 1650 ), but neither of them applied their preterist views to Revelation.
Drawing from an 1814 paper by Sir Everard Home, 1st Baronet | Everard Home showing the Ichthyosaurus platyodon skull found by Joseph Anning in 1811
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS ( 19 June 1820 ) was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.
Allegory of the First Partition of Poland | 1st partition of Poland, showing Catherine II of Russia ( left ), Joseph II of Austria and Frederick the Great of Prussia ( right ) quarelling over their territorial seizures
Sydney was founded after the war by Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, and named in honour of Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, who was serving as the Home Secretary in the British cabinet.
The abbey was founded by Britons, and dates to at least the early 7th century, although later medieval Christian legend claimed that the abbey was founded by Joseph of Arimathea in the 1st century.
Flora's Temple and the 1st Duke's Greenhouse survive from the 1690s, the Stable block and bridge were built by James Paine in the 1760s and Joseph Paxton's Conservative Wall and other glasshouses date from the 19th century.
* Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Bt ( doctor, treated King Edward VII and Joseph Merrick, " The Elephant Man ")
* Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle, 1st Baronet, of Toronto, in the Dominion of Canada ( 1917 ), extinct 1985
* Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Hawthornden, in the Cape Province, and Dudley House, in Westminster ( 1908 ), extant
Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet ( 21 December 1803 – 22 January 1887 ) was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist.
Lieutenant General Joseph Carroll ( DIA ) | Joseph Carroll, USAF ; 1st Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency | Director of DIA
* Joseph D. Helton Jr Monroe, Georgia, 1st Lieutenant, Officer, Killed in action, Iraq, ( b. September 30, 1984, d. September 8, 2009 ), 732d Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Detachment 2 flight commander ( police officer ) Police Transition Mission, 6th Security Forces Squadron, MacDill Air Force Base Florida ( Tampa ) action: ( IED detonation ; near FOB FALCON, Mahmudiyah District of Baghdad, on September 8th )
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