Jon Aresson
Jon Aresson , 1484?-1550, Icelandic churchman. The last Roman Catholic bishop in Iceland before the Reformation, he was executed together with his sons, Ara and Bjorn, for resisting the new religious ordinances brought about by the Reformation in Denmark. Aresson established the first Icelandic printing press at Holar in 1528. His poetry, secular and sacred, has been preserved.
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Police probe slaying of teen
Newspaper article from: Evanston Review (IL); 10/31/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...1117 Howard St. The victim, Joseph Harry Fouche, was shot in the groin and...and a shot was heard and he (Fouche) stumbled out to the driveway...his father said. A wake for Joseph Harry Isabor Fouche is to be held from 4-10 p...
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Police hoping reward brings clues in slaying
Newspaper article from: Evanston Review (IL); 12/5/2002; ; 494 words
; ...Working with the family of the victim, Joseph Fouche, Cook County Crime Stoppers Plus...shooting. The slaying occurred while Fouche was driving with three Hispanic males...about 11:53 p.m. Oct. 24. Fouche was struck in the groin and then...
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Who Is That Headed for the Guillotine?
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/20/1998; 700+ words
; ...both perpetrators and victims. Joseph Fouche is both perpetrator and victim...Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre. Fouche, history tells us, trafficked with...Antoinette was imprisoned, informs Fouche that the queen has been released...
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People to watch.(The Unsleeping Eye: A Brief History of Secret Police and their Victims)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...truly chilling turncoat and natural secret policeman, Joseph Fouche, who ran surveillance for the Jacobins, for Bonaparte...tormenters themselves. By Beria's time, passing through Fouche, such niceties had quite disappeared. Total annihilation...
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Critic's choice.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 7/16/2004; 700+ words
; ...Scots with an ingenious 'sting'. Behind Napoleon was Joseph Fouche, the superspy with dossiers on every enemy. When Napoleon...assassinated by a 'cart bomb' while driving to the opera, Fouche was given emergency powers to arrest and detain suspected...
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Book Review: The Last Cavalier: Good sense of Dumas
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 5/10/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...work - marvellous portrait of the minister of police, Joseph Fouche - and offers a vivid account of the Chouan civil war...from death, thanks to the improbable intervention of Fouche. He spends three years in prison, where he educates...
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Endangered Species?
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week; 7/29/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Justice Antonin Scalia and Sen. Joseph Lieberman. His new book, "We Jews: Who Are We and...at the time, a 1929 biography of the French statesman Joseph Fouche by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. Rabbi Steinsaltz...
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Religion and Revolution in France, 1780-1804.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...quintessential revolutionary bishop until his execution), even though he does allow the old saw that Convention member Joseph Fouche was a priest (actually a nonordained Oratorian). He is at his best, perhaps, when profiling the constitutional...
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The extreme sport of insult.
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 12/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...either Ari Fleischer or Karl Rove is Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Or maybe Richard Perle is related to Goebbels...compared John Ashcroft to Napoleon's ruthless police chief Joseph Fouche. History Prof. David Applebaum of Rowan University...
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Not-so-innocent royal deserved the gallows.(LETTERS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 12/20/2002; 432 words
; ...that the execution was "worse than a crime, it is a blunder" - attributed sometimes to Talleyrand and sometimes to Joseph Fouche - accurately reflects Mr. Beichman's view of Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott's comments, but it never reflected...
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Napoleonic Wars, Espionage During
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...unsurpassed master of intrigue in the famous person of Joseph Fouch é , who spied rampantly on his social...London) in 1803 to 1804, but it was stopped by Fouche's police. Fouche identified the plotters using his "Chouan's Geography...
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