Short answers, pulled from the story.
Joseph Fouché arrived in the world on the 21st of May 1759 within the small village of Le Pellerin near Nantes. His father Julien Joseph Fouché worked as a shipowner and his mother Marie Françoise Croizet managed their household.
Fouché traveled to Lyon in November 1793 alongside Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois to execute reprisals against the city. Over one thousand eight hundred executions occurred in the coming months as Fouché claimed Terror was now the order of the day here.
Together with Pierre Gaspard Chaumette he helped initiate the dechristianization movement in autumn 1793. He ordered words Death is an eternal sleep inscribed over gates to cemeteries while helping establish the Cult of Reason.
Robespierre grew appalled by atrocities committed during missions and exchanged angry communications with him. Robespierre tried to expel Fouché from the Jacobin Club on the 14th of July 1794 but failed due to protection provided by Barras.
After proclamation of First French Empire July 1804 he again became head reconstituted ministry of police later internal affairs with activities as important as those carried under Consulate. Police agents remained omnipresent terror which Napoleon and Fouché inspired partly accounts for absence of conspiracies after 1804.