Joseph Foullon de Doué
Joseph Foullon de Doué was born on June 25, 1715. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Joseph Foullon de Doué
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.