Joseph Fouché
1759–1820
French statesman. Tutor at a number of Catholic colleges before the French Revolution. Leading member of the Jacobin club in Nantes. Deputy to the National Convention for the Lower Loire, 1792. As a commissioner of the republic, led the suppression of the counter-revolution in Brittany, la Vandée, Lyons, and Nièvre. Ambassador to the Cisalpine republic, 1798; to the Hague, 1799. Minister of police, 1799–1802, 1804–10, and 1815. Duke of Otranto, 1808. Governor of Rome, 1810. President of the provisional government after the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Bibliography
EB: The Encyclopædia Britannica. A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11.