Dukes of Croatia - Dukes of the First French Empire, Joseph Fouche, Tomislav of Croatia, Jean Jacques Regis de Cambaceres (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Dukes of the First French Empire, Joseph Fouche, Tomislav of Croatia, Jean Jacques Regis de Cambaceres, Vojnomir of Pannonian Croatia, Ljudevit Posavski, Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary, Charles-Francois Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, Jean-Baptiste Bessieres, Etienne-Denis Pasquier, Branimir of Croatia, Trpimir I of Croatia, Jean-Baptiste de Nompere de Champagny, Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Borna of Croatia, Geraud Duroc, Domagoj of Croatia, Ratimir of Pannonian Croatia, Muncimir of Croatia, Vi eslav of Croatia, Zdeslav of Croatia, Duc de Montebello, Braslav of Pannonian Croatia, Porga of Croatia, Vladislav of Croatia, Duc de Dalberg, Iljko of Croatia. Excerpt: Joseph Fouche, 1st Duc d'Otrante (21 May 1759 Le Pellerin, near Nantes, France - 25 December 1820 Trieste, then Austria-Hungary, now Italy) was a French statesman and Minister of Police under Napoleon Bonaparte. In English texts his title is often translated as Duke of Otranto. Fouche was born in Le Pellerin, a small village near Nantes. His mother was Marie Francoise Croizet (1720-1793), and his father was Julien Joseph Fouche (1719-1771). He was educated at the college of the Oratorians at Nantes, and showed aptitude for literary and scientific studies. Wanting to become a teacher, he was sent to an institution kept by brethren of the same order in Paris. There he made rapid progress, and was soon appointed to tutorial duties at the colleges of Niort, Saumur, Vendome, Juilly and Arras. At Arras he had had some encounters with Maximilien Robespierre both before the revolution and in the early days of the French Revolution (1789). In October 1790, he was transferred by the Oratorians to their college at Nantes, in an attempt to control his advocacy of revolutionary principles - however, F...