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Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante, 1st Comte Fouché (French: [ʒozɛf fuʃe]; 21 May 1759 – 25 December 1820) was a French statesman, revolutionary, and Minister of Police under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, who later became a subordinate of Emperor Napoleon.
Karl Ludwig Schulmeister (1770–1853) [1] (also known as Carl Schulmeister or Charles Louis Schulmeister) was an Austrian double agent for France during the reign of Napoleon I. Schulmeister was born in Baden and raised as a shepherd. His father was a Lutheran minister. [2]
First, an agent had to brave Napoleon's secret police in order to get in touch with La Romana. Luckily, Sir Arthur Wellesley had suggested such a person to British Foreign Secretary George Canning before departing to command the army in Portugal [10] that went on to win the Battle of Vimeiro in August 1808. [11]
The Gendarmes d'élite de la Garde impériale (English: "élite gendarmes of the Imperial Guard") was a gendarmerie unit formed in 1801 by Napoleon as part of the Consular Guard which became the Imperial Guard in 1804. In time of peace, their role was to protect official residences and palaces and to provide security to important political figures.
Both the Paris Police Prefecture's Brigade Criminelle and the Direction centrale de la Police judiciaire trace their history directly to the Sûreté. The French Sûreté is considered a pioneer of all crime-fighting organizations in the world, although London's Bow Street Runners , founded 1749, served a similar purpose at times.
She was also in contact with the French Police Minister Joseph Fouché and is said to have worked as an agent for the French secret police herself. Due to her social contacts with the Talleyrand house, Auguste von Kielmannsegge proved to be the most important informant for Napoleon. Over time, the spying became conspicuous there and warnings ...
However, he escaped and fled to Great Britain. In 1803 he returned to France with royalist conspirator Georges Cadoudal, was caught by Napoleon's secret police, and died in suspicious circumstances in a prison cell. [5]
As punishment he was imprisoned by Napoleon's secret police but was freed when the Allies took Paris in 1814. [6] During the Hundred Days the de Gobineau family fled France . After Napoleon's final overthrow following the Battle of Waterloo , Louis de Gobineau was rewarded for his loyalty to the House of Bourbon by being made a captain in the ...