Joseph Fouché Handwritten Letter Signed Minister of Police Autograph

  

Joseph Fouché, also known as Fouché de Nantes, Duke of Otranto, Count Fouché, (1759-1820), Minister of Police under the Directory, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Second Restoration. Handwritten letter with autograph signature as Minister of the General Police of the Republic - addressed to the central administration of the Seine department in Paris. A Citizen denounced, at the Council of Five Hundred, in the session of the 16th of Messidor last, an abuse that tends to deprive the nation of significant rights over the property of emigrants, through false certificates of non-emigration, and cited, as an example, a similar certificate issued by the department of the Seine, stating that Amélie de Boufflers, wife Goutant, is not listed as an emigrant and under which her heirs, as well as the heirs Villeroy, have been put in possession of the Villeroy succession... Letter dated the 12th of Thermidor, year 7.