Echo

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"It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder".

("C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute") is a famous, cynical maxim regarding the 1804 kidnapping and execution of the Duke of Enghien by Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed to diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. It highlights that the action was a massive political error, not just a moral crime. 

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 Napoleon described Talleyrand as a 'shit in silk stockings', (merde en bas de soie.

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