Méhée de La Touche

His next appointment as a spy was in Poland, where he established the Gazette de Varsovie, a French newspaper in Warsaw.

He was pronounced the secretary of the Paris Commune, and organised the September Massacres at the start of the next month, together with Sulpice Huguenin and Jean-Lambert Tallien.

[1] In 1797, after the Coup of 18 Fructidor, he was convicted to be transported to Cayenne, together with Charles Pichegru, François-Marie, marquis de Barthélemy and thirteen others.

[5] In 1804, de La Touche revealed the plot, and the support it received from Francis Drake, the minister to the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg.

After the fall of Napoleon in 1815, he was no longer welcome in France and fled first to Switzerland and then to Brussels, where in 1817 he worked as the editor of Le Vrai Liberal.

[8] Mehée de La Touche was a prolific writer of pamphlets, essays, articles, letters, and books.

[9][10] His books include: He also attached some essays of his hand to his translation of some tales by Gottlieb Conrad Pfeffel, published in Paris in 1815.