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Emmanuel de Waresquiel, « Joseph Fouché and the Question of Amnesty for Émigrés (1799–1802) », Annales historiques de la Révolution française, ID : 10670/1.az9ggg
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Between 1799 and 1802, the policy of removing the names of émigrés from national records and extending an amnesty to émigrés conducted by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and his Minister of Police Joseph Fouché faced a number of unexpected obstacles that say a great deal about the divergent viewpoints of these two men regarding the Revolution and the themes of reconciliation, forgetting, and conditional pardon. These policies also reveal much about the precarious balance of power, and especially the power plays that linked various centers of power within the government at the beginning of the Consulat. This paper is part of a general preparation for an exhaustive biography of Joseph Fouché.