Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-03-23
NAPOLEOA'S GREAT FOUCHE
VINO WAS CHIEF or PeLIcE MN
ING THE REIGN OF TERROR.
secret system Invented by Des-
pouc Power Under which
Murder was Very Com
mon Occurrence.

I
consul and emperor. was without ex-
oeption the most remarkable instru-
ment ever invented by depouc power,
It has It's excuse in the confusion and
anarchy created by the directory and
previous regimes after the fan OF the
monarchy, and IN the longing OF all
l Frenchmen FOR something like repose
ana tranquility. The model on which
/ this police was framed, like every
thing else In the revolutionary period
was that of the old regime, intensi-
/ fed to such 4 degree that In COMPARE
son the police OF the old regime was
| u mild ana benehcent institution. Inc
1 Napoleonic police was directed against
I two classes 1.-The Republicans and the
/ Royhlists. but the former gave little
/ trouble, while the latter was an ever
present source OF anxiety 10 the estab-
/ lished government.
The police, composed mainly Of the
most prominent Instruments during the
| reign Of terror. was under the nominal
control Of Fouche, duke OF Ouanto'
/ minister Of police, but 1t was really
/ controlled and directed by Napoleon
| himself The great source o. inforna-
ton was the pnst1ilice. and sus-
4 pected correspondence was invariably
/ opened and read. Napoleon had no
time TO read all the letters. but the
most Interesting ones We're copied by
/ his secretaries. Extracts were from
/ time 10 time transmitted to the police,
| Yin this formula. 1.-THE first consul
directs me to inform you, etc"
Y The center Of the circle was Napo-
leon, and around him We're only sub
4 ordinates. The most celebrated OF
these was Fouche. one II his blogra-
"rhis man was not dangerous ex-
cept when he desired IL satisfy his
/ ambition, which, however, with him
was an Unsuitable passion. Whenever
his ambition was not In question the
Hinihter OF police became witty and
amiable. HIS murders and exactions
in the departments OF the Nievre the
Loire and the Rhoue procured him
millions IN gold and objects Of art
and completely Killed all sense of duty
and completely killed all sense OF
came minister OF police he did not shun
his former J0cObin friends, but em-
pluyed them ms much as possible One
OF his agents and most trusted spies
was unconventional RouX. who had
been employed by the directory In pro-
Nisloning Paris, and another was Cha
py' VINO had taken part In the Sep
tember nnHsacres and had murdered
the Princess de Lnmbale.
'Fouche," says a contemporary
however, was, when minister of police
and duke Of Otranto. n very different
person from Fouche the Terrorist. He
became Intimate with the Princess dc
Naudfemont, one Of the last descend
ants Of the house OF Lorraine. and the
Z regiclde was on good terms with tho
Fauhourg ST. Gcrmain." He married
INTO one OF the most illustrlous FAINT
Hes Of the old nobility and became
apparently SO devoted to the society
OF the noble Faubourg that Napoleon
half suspected him OF being sympa-
thl2cr with the Baurbons. NAPOLEON
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Fouehc, and secretly took away with
one hand the power conferred upon
him by the other. One OF NapoIcon's
methods to this end was to employ
the dangerous SPY Real-a Belglan-
to watch fouche closely.
Real organized the iusurrectlon OF
May 81, and his Journal. lie Patriotic,
received S3.0O000O from the secret ser
vice money through Danton. He af-
terWard became q public nccuser he
fore the Revolutionary Tribunal aud
he kept the Euillotlne well supplied
with victims. lie played an important
part In the AFFAIR OF the 18th Bru-
marie, and obtained the absolute con-
hdonce Of BonOparte, Touches biog-
2 rapher says 'In order 10 know this
man, one must rcnd the series Of in
toTogatorlos which he inflicted on his
] / prisoners.
III Real found II prisoner against
} | whom there existed no real evidence
hut who would not bond 60 his will
J ! like the Marquis dc Nardricourt h,
caused him TO disappear so completely
IN state prison, that under the reigT
OF the Bourbona all trace OF him was
{ lost, and his family only discovered
. his place of incarceration after year,
Z OF research, aided by the governmen
1 and the police. hut Real was only
tool, and he kept his place, bccaus,
a he allowed himself 10 be handled 10y
. the master, Real was but the pawn
g that Napoleon moved on the chess
board OF state. Veyrat, inspector o
G general police, was another of Napo
leon's tools whom he frequently hand
+ led In opposition TO touche, This Ney
= rat was a hypochtioal Swiss. VIII,
9 honsted OF his crimes. when he foun,
= Il his interest to do so. He was form
u erly IN the service of Danton, In tn
character OF SPY. In a brochure
which he had the audacity 10 publisl
under the Directory he related how h
gained the intimacy OF suspected per
sons. and then brought them to IN
~ guillotine. During the consulate. Rea
was made inspector OF police, but h
had then slight misfortune, as
was discovered by one of HIS sub-of
M dinates that before the revolution h
"a had been publicly whipped and brand
n, ed Tor a series OF infamous crimes.
~ The regular work Of the ofncial PC
e lice was conflded TO pesmarest. an eN
"a | priest ana Spy OF inc Jerror, IL
amused a large fortune by means q
% brides and eNtortions. and when IN
!. restoration came, he Ind addres
II enough 20 cause himself to be fol
Ia cotton. Depository Of an endless nun
y her OF secrets, Il was nobody's interes
n. TO dlsturb hts repose. not even that {
~ the royalists, whom he had tormente
ia and robbed during the terror, the cor
II sulatc, and the empire" Such WEI
b. the mon whom Napoleon employed I
lie trace out royallst conspiracies. and
id need be, 10 manufacture them, whef
rs ever the object was to strike terr,
n into the pertisRns or the Bourbon
NJ 1t was through tho medium OF thes
On agents that the unfortunate Due d'Ei
lit ghien was induced to approach n
frontier, IN order that he might be u
more easily kidnapped and shot at VII
cennes. and It Is even said that the
formed a design 10 poison Louis XVI
~ at Warsaw, although II has not bee
clearly established that Napoleon WI
aware OF this dcsign. The compiled
Of Napoleon In the affair rests sole
&c on tho authority OF an English jou
mt nulist and spy employed by the pole
all ! Goldsmith was charged with the dire