# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-fouche
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:49.682Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Joseph Fouché was born 21 May 1759 into a world he would help destroy and rebuild twice over. In 1793 he earned his reputation for ruthlessness by crushing the Lyon insurrection with systematic ferocity during the Revolution's bloodiest phase. That calculated brutality became competence: he served as Minister of Police under the Directory, then under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, then under Emperor Napoleon, building the era's most effective surveillance apparatus. When Napoleon fell in 1815, Fouché pivoted one last time and served as President of the Executive Commission, the provisional government installed in the emperor's place. He died 26 December 1820, having outlasted the tyrants by becoming indispensable to all of them.