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Foullon de Doué, Joseph François

Joseph François Foullon

Born

25 June 1715

Died

22 July 1789

An intendant of the army and navy under Belle-Isle and Choiseul, and from 1771 an intendant of finances, Foullon was a career administrator of war finance known for his opposition to the free trade in grain. He was brought into the ministry formed after Necker’s dismissal on 11 July 1789 and fled Paris when it collapsed five days later, taking refuge on Sartine’s estate at Viry. Seized there by villagers on 22 July, he was brought to Paris with hay bound to him and hanged from a lamp-post after Bailly and La Fayette failed to save him, then beheaded and his head carried on a pike. The remark about eating hay attributed to him is not recorded in any contemporary source.

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