Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.
Stefan Zweig (standing) in Vienna with his brother Alfred (1879–1977), c. 1900
Street named after Zweig in Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro
Barbituates from Bayer in glass tubes with cork caps - 10 tablets probably produced around 1940
Surviving copy of Zweig's novel Amok (1922) burned by Nazis
Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante, 1st Comte Fouché was a French statesman, revolutionary, and Minister of Police under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, who later became a subordinate of Emperor Napoleon. He was particularly known for the ferocity with which he suppressed the Lyon insurrection during the Revolution in 1793 and for being minister of police under the Directory, the Consulate, and the Empire. In 1815, he served as President of the Executive Commission, which was the provisional government of France installed after the abdication of Napoleon. In English texts, his title is often translated as Duke of Otranto.
Portrait as Minister of Police by Claude-Marie Dubufe, after an original by René Théodore Berthon
Joseph Fouché's coat of arms as Duke of Otranto
