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Joseph Fouché

1759 - 1820

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Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante, 1st Comte Fouché (French: [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 a highly competent 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Fouché has received more than 658,612 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Joseph Fouché is the 4th most popular public worker, the 236th most popular biography from France (up from 255th in 2019) and the most popular French Public Worker.

Joseph Fouché was a French politician and police chief. He is most famous for being the head of the police during the reign of Napoleon.

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Among public workers, Joseph Fouché ranks 4 out of 15. Before him are Draco, Emperor Taishō, and Alois Hitler. After him are Mikhail Kalinin, Gaius Maecenas, Demetrius of Phalerum, Thomas Cromwell, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Robert Walpole, Markus Wolf, and John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1759, Joseph Fouché ranks 3. Before him are Friedrich Schiller, and Georges Danton. After him are Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Feodorovna, Robert Burns, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, William Pitt the Younger, William Wilberforce, Clotilde of France, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, and Maria Theresia von Paradis. Among people deceased in 1820, Joseph Fouché ranks 2. Before him is George III of the United Kingdom. After him are Jiaqing Emperor, Elisa Bonaparte, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, François Christophe de Kellermann, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Gia Long, Henri Christophe, Manuel Belgrano, and Jean-Lambert Tallien.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Fouché ranks 236 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine Meillet (1866), John II of France (1319), Alfred Sisley (1839), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Charles the Simple (879), and Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619). After him are Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Jeanne Calment (1875), Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), Richard II of England (1367), and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755).

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Among PUBLIC WORKERS In France

Among public workers born in France, Joseph Fouché ranks 1. After him are Pascal Lamy (1947).

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