Fouché

(foo-sha',) JOSEPH, minister of police under Napoleon I., was B. at Nantes in 1763, and in early life embraced the profe ion of the law. As a member of the Jacobin party in the National Convention, he voted for the death of Louis XVI.; in 1794 was declared president of the Jacobin Club, and in 1799 minister of police under the Directory. This office he retained under the Consulate and Empire, and, in 1806, Napoleon created him Duke of Otranto. He D. in exile at Trieste, 1820. [s. 378]