Fouchet's Life Story

When fouchet returned to the convention after robespierre's death, he played his most unexpected move having led the conspiracy against him. He once again changed sides, joining the radical jacobins. For perhaps the first time in his life, he alligned himself with the minority. Fouchet must have calculated he could keep his head long enough to quietly stir up the populace against the moderates and watch them fall from power. And indeed, although the moderates did call for his arrest in december of 17 95, and would have sent him to the guillotine, too much time had passed. The executions had become unpopular with the people, and fouchet survived the swing of the pend