Word: fouch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guessed, quite rightly, that Mme. de Staël "wanted to put him on guard against himself" and to play the part of mistress-adviser to him. But the Consul already had his eye on sylphish Juliette Récamier, wife of a Paris banker, had sent Minister Joseph Fouché to whisper in her ear: "The First Consul finds you charming." When, after Napoleon had become Emperor, Mme. Récamier still shied away, Bonaparte engraved her name forever in his so-called Great Book of Suspects. Just to top off the awful insult, Mme. Récamier became...
...Attrition. In Zanesville, Ohio, filing a divorce petition, Glen E. Fouch charged that his wife threw away his false teeth and spectacles, poured out his heart medicine, cut his clothes into shreds, broke a coffee cup over his head...