Joseph Fouché

Count of the Empire
Joseph Fouché
Duke of Otranto
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Count of the Empire Joseph Fouché Duke of Otranto; LH
	Portrait as Minister of Police by Claude-Marie Dubufe, after an original by René Théodore Berthon
President of the Executive Commission
	In office; 22 June 1815 – 7 July 1815
Monarch	Napoleon II
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Office abolished; (Talleyrand as Prime Minister)
Minister of Police
	In office; 20 July 1799 – 3 June 1810
Preceded by	Claude Sébastien Bourguignon-Dumolard
Succeeded by	Anne Jean Marie René Savary
	In office; 20 March 1815 – 22 June 1815
Preceded by	Jules Anglès
Succeeded by	Jean, comte Pelet de la Lozère
	In office; 7 July 1815 – 26 September 1815
Preceded by	Jean, comte Pelet de la Lozère
Succeeded by	Élie, duc Decazes
Deputy of the National Convention
	In office; 20 September 1792 – 2 November 1795
Constituency	Nantes
Personal details
Born	21 May 1759; Le Pellerin, Kingdom of France
Died	26 December 1820 (aged 61); Trieste, Austrian Empire; (now Italy)
Political party	Jacobin (1789–1795); Girondist (1792–1793); Montagnard (1793–1794); Thermidorian (1794–1799); Bonapartist (1799–1814)
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Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante, 1st Comte Fouché (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf fuʃe], 21 May 1759 – 25 December 1820) was a French statesman, revolutionary, and Minister of Police under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, who later became a subordinate of Emperor Napoleon. He was particularly known for the ferocity with which he suppressed the Lyon insurrection during the Revolution in 1793 and for being minister of police under the Directory, the Consulate, and the Empire. In 1815, he served as President of the Executive Commission, which was the provisional government of France installed after the abdication of Napoleon. In English texts, his title is often translated as Duke of Otranto.

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