FOUCHÉ (Joseph, Duke of Otranto), 1759–1820.

FOUCHÉ (Joseph, Duke of Otranto), 1759–1820. Autograph draft, signed with his initials, of a letter to “L. B. de V.” (Baron de Vitrolles?), Prague, September 7, [1816], 2 pp., in-4. A fine letter from exile in which Fouché defends his political conduct, refers to his letter to the Duke of Wellington, and announces that he is writing his memoirs. Proscribed as a regicide by the law of January 12, 1816, the former Minister of Police had retired to Prague. He thanks his correspondent for

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