JOSEPH FOUCHE (1759-1820) French revolutionary and Minister of Police associated with Carnot and Robespierre whom he ruthlessly defended, later served Napoleon in eliminating political resistance. Manuscript L.S. "Fouche" 1p. legal folio, Paris, June 3, 1809, as Senator to the Minister of War, forwarding a letter (not present), and commending to his attention Sieur Manuel Esquival de Sotomayor, a Spaniard who had been one of several to be sent from Florence to Dijon, and about whom Fouche had already written the Minister. Near fine. $150-200