Joseph Fouché (1759–1820) French statesman
Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Death is not "an eternal sleep!"”
Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!" <br class="br">Source: Last speech to the National Convention http://www.bartleby.com/268/7/24.html (26 July 1794)
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