| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 22896 |
| QUOTATION: | It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Joseph Fouché (17591820), French minister of police under Napoleon. Attributed.
Remark, March 21, 1804, on the execution of the abducted royalist émigré, the Duc dEnghien, at Vincennes. |
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