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Plus encore que Talleyrand peut-être, Joseph Fouché (1759-1820) demeure la plus grande énigme de cette époque fascinante qu’ont été la Révolution, l’Empire et la Restauration.Tour à tour religieux, girondin, montagnard, « mitrailleur de Lyon », ministre de la police durant le Consulat et l’Empire, président du Conseil après Waterloo, ministre de Louis XVIII, duc d’Otrante : Fouché fascine et répulse.De Balzac à Jean Claude Brisville, de Châteaubriand à Stefan Zweig, Fouché est un personnage pour les romanciers et dramaturges. Sans compter les historiens qui s’interrogent encore sur sa personnalité et ses actes. La « Pieuvre » n’a-t-elle pas passé sa vie à brouiller les pistes et à manipuler les hommes.Pour comprendre cette personnalité trouble et maléfique, Emmanuel de Waresquiel a traqué la vérité dans d’innombrables documents originaux que nul n’avait vus avant lui. De Stockholm à Londres, des archives notariales aux bribes de papiers encore disponibles sur le ministère de la police générale, ce sont des centaines de pièces qui sont dévoilées et interprétées. Historien par excellence de l’Empire et de la Restauration, l’auteur s’emploie avec un exceptionnel talent littéraire, à faire parler tous ces documents et à cerner son personnage. Fruit de huit années de travail, cette étourdissante biographie se lit comme un roman au long cours.

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Minister of Police Joseph Fouché was universally distrusted, feared, and hated in his time, but was nevertheless considered indispensable. In Medusa's Head, Rand Mirante recounts the chameleonic and astonishing career of Napoleon's security chief, who created the modern police state and wielded immense power that threatened the other main organs of government. Fouché was one of the most important, fascinating, and controversial figures of the French Revolution, the First Empire, and the Bourbon Restoration, and this biography captures and unravels the highlights of Fouché's life, including his infamous roles as: A priest-in-training who became a radical Jacobin and de-Christianizer A regicide who cast a dramatic swing vote for Louis XVI's immediate execution The grim and remorseless "Butcher of Lyon" Mastermind of the conspiracy that sent Robespierre to the guillotine The head of Napoleon's police - privy to everyone's secrets, shaping the media, deploying 10,000 informants in Paris alone, and securing funding from the Empire's casinos and brothels Cunning enabler of Napoleon's 1799 coup, and subsequent repeated betrayer of the Emperor Acting president after Waterloo and traitor to France Louis XVIII's Minister of Police, in spite of his responsibility for the death of the King's brother A wealthy but disgraced exile who met an unusual end in Trieste on the Adriatic Medusa's Head provides fresh insights and perspectives on this enormously influential and fearsome individual.

We like to think of sports as elemental: strong bodies trained to overcome height, weight, distance; the thrill of earned victory or the agony of defeat in a contest decided on a level playing field. But in Game Changer, Rayvon Fouché argues that sports have been radically shaped by an explosion of scientific and technological advances in materials, training, nutrition, and medicine dedicated to making athletes stronger and faster. Technoscience, as Fouché dubs it, increasingly gives the edge (however slight) to the athlete with the latest gear, the most advanced training equipment, or the performance-enhancing drugs that are hardest to detect. In this revealing book, Fouché examines a variety of sports paraphernalia and enhancements, from fast suits, athletic shoes, and racing bicycles to basketballs and prosthetic limbs. He also takes a hard look at gender verification testing, direct drug testing, and the athlete biological passport in an attempt to understand the evolving place of technoscience across sport. In this book, Fouché: · Examines the relationship among sport, science, and technology· Considers what is at stake in defining sporting culture by its scientific knowledge and technology· Provides readers and students with an informative and engagingly written studyFocusing on well-known athletes, including Michael Phelps, Oscar Pistorius, Caster Semenya, Usain Bolt, and Lance Armstrong, Fouché argues that technoscience calls into question the integrity of games, records, and our bodies themselves. He also touches on attempts by sporting communities to regulate the use of technology, from elite soccer's initial reluctance to utilize goal-line technology to automobile racing's endless tweaking of regulatory formulas in an attempt to blur engineering potency and reclaim driver skill and ability. Game Changer will change the way you look at sports―and the outsized impact technoscience has on them.

When someone begins a killing spree on Napoleon's personal sentries, captured British agent Alan Hepburn finds himself forced not only to assist with the investigation but also to match wits with the Emperor and his chief of police, the wily Fouche. In Captain Cut-Throat Carr's trademark combination of sudden death and captivating historical re-creation is at its best.