Joseph François Fuller

Joseph François Fuller or Fuller of Gifted , born with Saumur, the June 25th 1715, died with Paris, the July 22nd 1789, one of the first victims of the French revolution.

Before the Revolution

Resulting from a noble family of Anjou, he is general intendant of the War, then of the Navy under Etienne François de Choiseul, intendant of Finances under the abbot Joseph Marie Terray, Joseph de Foulon is a skilful administrator but little loved because of his hardness.

To advise State in 1784, very listened to Court to which it presents financier recovery packages, it is very hostile with the novel ideas and the entourage of Philippe of Orleans (1747-1793).

Under the Revolution

The July 12th 1789, Louis XVI of France appoints it controller of finances in the place of Jacques Necker. The choice of this man, for a long time unpopular, excited a sharp irritation. One made accept Parisian that it was in Joseph de Foulon that the intendance of the army gathered around Paris was entrusted to finish some with the Parliament.

Also judges he good to put himself at the shelter and leaves it Paris, the July 21st 1789, to go to Viry-Châtillon at old the Secretary of State to the Navy Gabriel de Sartine. He is stopped in the park of this last by peasants and servants and conduit barefeet with Paris. Like the weather is hot, that this old man of almost seventy-five years is thirsty and perspires, one gives him to drinking peppered vinegar and one him essuie the face with nettles.

Led to the Town hall of Paris in the morning of the July 22nd 1789, he sees ravelling Jean Sylvain Bailly and Fayette which haranguent crowd but do not dare to require its release.

One hangs it with a reverberator in the street of the Glassmaking, in the presence of his son-in-law Berthier de Sauvigny who was him also hung place of Strike. The cord surrounding the neck of Joseph Fuller having broken, one decapitates it. Its head was carried in triumph with a handle of hay in the mouth.

One showed it to have advised the bankruptcy and to have said during the famine: “ If this rabble does not have bread, that she eats hay ” but nothing justifies these charges.

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