biography
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Fouché, Joseph, duc d'Otrante (Duke of Otranto)
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pronunciation:
[fooshay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1759–1820)
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| biography:
| French politician, born in Le Pellerin, near Nantes, W France. He renounced his membership of the Oratorians at the Revolution and became a Jacobin and member of the Convention in 1792. An enthusiastic proponent of de-Christianization, and a consummate intriguer, he served as minister of police (1799–1815). He was banished in 1816, after the Bourbon restoration, and died in exile in Trieste. |
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