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Joseph Fouché

To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. May 12, Oscar Chavez rated it it was amazing Shelves: Una revolucion -lo sabe muy bien este hombre precozmente sutil- nunca pertenece al primero, al que la inicia, sino al ultimo, al que la culmina asiendose a ella como a una presa. Nunca es el destierro para el verdadero fuerte una mengua: Mimoza Kociu rated it it was amazing Oct 20, Octavio Balanzarioledezma rated it it was amazing Apr 15, Hugues rated it liked it Nov 30, Ornela Biberaj rated it it was amazing Jan 28, Theodor Dumitru rated it it was amazing Dec 07, Mouysset rated it it was amazing Nov 06, Frederic De meyer rated it really liked it Jun 13, Tzn Arc rated it it was amazing Jun 07, Eduard Iulian rated it it was amazing Aug 23, Sinaloa rated it really liked it Mar 25, Dal Cancino rated it it was amazing Sep 23, Denis rated it really liked it Aug 07, Stephen marked it as to-read Dec 30, Benjamin Daud added it Mar 30, Sara added it Sep 04, Glenda marked it as to-read Mar 22, Abdelrahman sewedy marked it as to-read Mar 25, Compelled by the weather and intense sea-sickness to put back into port, he found a mediator in Elisa Bonaparte , Grand Duchess of Tuscany , thanks to whom he was allowed to settle in Aix-en-Provence.

Nevertheless, the emperor, still distrustful, ordered him to undertake the government of the Illyrian provinces. He arrived in Paris on 10 April at the time when Napoleon was being constrained by his marshals to abdicate. As senator he advised the Senate to send a deputation to Charles, comte d'Artois , brother of Louis XVIII , with a view to a reconciliation between the monarchy and the nation.

A little later he addressed to Napoleon, then banished to Elba , a letter begging him in the interests of peace and of France to withdraw to the United States.

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To the new sovereign Louis XVIII he sent an appeal in favour of liberty, and recommending the adoption of measures which would conciliate all interests. The response was unsatisfactory, and when he found that there were no hopes of advancement, he entered into relations with conspirators who sought the overthrow of the Bourbons. Soon Napoleon escaped from Elba and made his way in triumph to Paris.

He then foiled an attempt by Royalists to arrest him, and on the arrival of Napoleon he received for the third time the portfolio of police. That, however, did not prevent him from entering into secret relations with the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich in Vienna , his aim being to prepare for all eventualities. Meanwhile, he used all his powers to induce the emperor to democratize his rule, and he is said to have caused the insertion of the words: He headed the provisional government and tried to negotiate with the allies.

He probably also aimed at establishing a republic with himself as head of state, with the help of some Republican freemasons. Thus, he belonged to the regicides , and ultra-royalists both within the cabinet and outside could hardly tolerate him as a member of the royal cabinet. Even Prime Minister Talleyrand disapproved of such practices, including the useless death sentence on Michel Ney and compiling proscription lists of other military people and former republican politicians.

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He died in exile in Trieste in The transition represented all that was worst in the life of France during the period of the Revolution and Empire. Yet his intellectual pride prevented him sinking to the level of a mere tool. His relations to Napoleon were marked by a certain aloofness.

He multiplied the means of resistance even to that irresistible autocrat, so that though removed from office, he was never wholly disgraced. Despised by all for his tergiversations, he nevertheless was sought by all on account of his cleverness.


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He repaid the contempt of his superiors and the adulation of his inferiors by a mask of impenetrable reserve or scorn. He sought for power and neglected no means to make himself serviceable to the party whose success appeared to be imminent. Yet, while appearing to be the servant of the victors, present or prospective, he never gave himself to any one party. In this versatility he resembles Talleyrand , of whom he was a coarse replica.

Both professed, under all their shifts and turns, to be desirous of serving France. By his first marriage to Bonne Jeanne Coiquaud 1 April — 8 October , he had seven children:. By his second marriage to Ernestine de Castellane-Majastres 5 July — 4 May , he had no children. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, , The Federalist Revolt in the French Revolution, p. HarperCollins Publishers, New York. The History of France 1st ed. Les silences de la pieuvre.

Retrieved March 30, — via Cairn. Retrieved 22 October Significant civil and political events by year.

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French Directory 2 November to 10 November French Consulate 10 November — 18 May Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano. First cabinet of Napoleon 18 May to 1 April Jean-Baptiste Collin de Sussy. French government of the Hundred Days 20 March to 22 June