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JOSEPH FOUCHÉ, DUKE OF OTRANTO (1759-1820)
A collection of 19 letters and documents relating to Fouché's enquiry into AN ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE NAPOLEON, nearly all of them reports addressed to Fouché or his officials, Paris, Amiens, Calais, Rouen, Brest and elsewhere, 'le 1er messidor an 7' [19 June 1799] - 3 August 1808, but also including a report on the conspiracy, together with a dossier of copied correspondence, altogether approximately 100 pages, mostly folio (some leaves worn at edges, slightly browned).
Fouché's dossier on the 'conspiration de l'agence anglaise', a royalist conspiracy discovered in January 1800, whose aim was to capture and assassinate Napoleon on the Malmaison road: Fouché however had monitored the progress of the plot for several months, and the ringleaders of the conspiracy, the chevaliers de Coigny and Joubert, were captured and executed a few months later.
There were a number of conspiracies and attempts to assassinate Napoleon, by both Jacobins and Royalists, sometimes in the pay of British agents, in the years around 1800, of which the most famous was the famous 'Infernal Machine' plot, in which a bomb was set off as Napoleon and the Imperial party travelled to the Opéra in Paris for a performance of Haydn's Creation; another plot centring on the Opéra earlier in the same year had involved a group of conspirators armed with daggers, à la Julius Caesar. Fouché, as the Minister of Police, was responsible in each case for the investigations. (19)
A collection of 19 letters and documents relating to Fouché's enquiry into AN ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE NAPOLEON, nearly all of them reports addressed to Fouché or his officials, Paris, Amiens, Calais, Rouen, Brest and elsewhere, 'le 1er messidor an 7' [19 June 1799] - 3 August 1808, but also including a report on the conspiracy, together with a dossier of copied correspondence, altogether approximately 100 pages, mostly folio (some leaves worn at edges, slightly browned).
Fouché's dossier on the 'conspiration de l'agence anglaise', a royalist conspiracy discovered in January 1800, whose aim was to capture and assassinate Napoleon on the Malmaison road: Fouché however had monitored the progress of the plot for several months, and the ringleaders of the conspiracy, the chevaliers de Coigny and Joubert, were captured and executed a few months later.
There were a number of conspiracies and attempts to assassinate Napoleon, by both Jacobins and Royalists, sometimes in the pay of British agents, in the years around 1800, of which the most famous was the famous 'Infernal Machine' plot, in which a bomb was set off as Napoleon and the Imperial party travelled to the Opéra in Paris for a performance of Haydn's Creation; another plot centring on the Opéra earlier in the same year had involved a group of conspirators armed with daggers, à la Julius Caesar. Fouché, as the Minister of Police, was responsible in each case for the investigations. (19)
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