Joseph Fouché

thumb|Joseph Fouché Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante (May 21, 1759 – December 25, 1820) was a French statesman and Minister of Police under Napoleon Bonaparte. In English texts his title is often translated as Duke of Otranto. Quotes "It is more than a crime; it is a political fault," —words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others. Memoirs of Fouché. Commonly quoted, "It is worse than a crime,—it is a blunder", and attributed to Talleyrand; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Death is an eternal sleep. Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Terror, salutary terror, is here in truth the order of the day; it represses all the efforts of the wicked ; it divests crime of all covering and tinsel! In a letter to the Committee of Public Safety while Representative on Mission in the City of Lyon, December 1793; reported in The Court and Camp of Buonaparte (1829), p. 65. See also Caroline Moorehead, Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era (2010), p. 177, quoting the phrase as "Terror, salutary terror, is the order of the day". External links Category:Essayists from France Category:Non-fiction authors from France Category:Interior ministers Category:Prime Ministers of France Category:Politicians from France Category:Diplomats of France Category:Revolutionaries Category:Freemasons Category:1759 births Category:1820 deaths