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How Joseph Fouché survived four French regimes

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Loyalty is entirely overrated when you have everyone's search history. Joseph Fouché survived the Reign of Terror, the Directory, Napoleon, and the restored Bourbon monarchy simply by being the creepiest spymaster in Europe. He built a surveillance state so pervasive that he always knew exactly who was secretly plotting what, making him the one man even the Emperor was too terrified to execute.

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