Joseph Foullon de Doué
Joseph-François Foullon | |
|---|---|
| Controller-General of Finances | |
| In office 13 July 1789 – 16 July 1789 | |
| Monarch | Louis XVI |
| Preceded by | Jacques Necker (25 August 1788 – 11 July 1789) |
| Succeeded by | Jacques Necker (16 July 1789 (confirmed in writing on 23 July by letter from Basel) – 3 September 1790) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 June 1715 |
| Died | 22 July 1789 (aged 74) Place de Grève, Paris, France |
Joseph-François Foullon de Doué (25 June 1715 – 22 July 1789) was a French politician and a Controller-General of Finances under Louis XVI.
A deeply unpopular figure during the French Revolution, he was supposed to be lynched à la lanterne on 22 July. However, since the ropes used for hanging broke several times, he was eventually beheaded by an angry mob, who then impaled his head on a pike and paraded it through the streets of Paris with a tuft of hay in his mouth. At the same time, his son-in-law – the Intendant of Paris, Louis Bénigne François Bertier de Sauvigny – died by hanging from a street lamp.