#joseph fouche
A youngish Joseph Fouché, revolutionary, professional turncoat, Napoleon’s police minister and archnemesis, in all his red-haired, blue-eyed glory (inspired by this miniature here). Painted in acrylic on Moleskine sketchbook paper.
Happy birthday to the Snake Man aka Joseph Fouché! He sheds another skin today
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Duff Cooper, Talleyrand’s biographer, on the difference between Talleyrand and Fouché was that for the former “politics meant the settlement of dynastic or international problems discussed in a ball-room or across the dinner-table; for Fouché the same word meant street-corner assassination, planned by masked conspirators in dark cellars”.
Charming individuals, no?
Source: http://gillraysprintshop.blogspot.com/2009/01/talleyrand-and-fouche.html
