This October 13, 1809, Joseph Fouché watched from the window of his office on the Quai Voltaire flowing the Seine.
The all-powerful Minister of Police is in a gloomy mood.
Of course, Napoleon has just won at Wagram, but there is talk of a marriage with an Austrian archduchess, a niece of Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI.
However, Fouché voted for the death of the king.
He senses his disgrace.
At the beginning of the year Talleyrand had already suffered a violent algarade on the part of the Emperor and, excluded from any function, retired to Valençay.
Is it now Fouché's turn?
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Napoleon facing himself
This one sighs.
He defeated Robespierre, but Napoleon?
A bailiff knocks on the door: an urgent letter came by mail, then telegraph, from Vienna, from Schulmeister, the famous spy in charge of Napoleon's security in Austria.
Fouché reads:
“I am warning you immediately.
The Emperor was assassinated on October 12 by an unknown person during the military parade in front of the castle.
I'm investigating.
Make all arrangements in Paris. ”
Fouché
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