Joseph Fouché

Early years

• Born May 21, 1759
• Educated as a priest at French Oratory

Self-excommunication

• Democratic and anti-clericalism
• Renounced the Church in 1972
• Goal was to 'dechristianize' France

off with his head

• Voted to execute Louis XVI (1973)

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• Became Minister of Police in 1799
• Supported coup of Brumaire

Grenouille and Fouche

'slovenly, ill-dressed, brutal, sinister'

Similarities

• Opportunist
• Does everything necessary to survive
• Calculating, cold, selfish, immoral

Fouche

• Educated at the Oratory
• Later embarks on a dechristianization project

Grenouille

• Mother
• Gaillard
• Grimal
• Baldini
• Marquis de La Taillade-Espinasse