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    Fouquier-Tinville was born Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville and became a French public prosecutor who, because of his zealous prosecutions during the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, earned the nickname “Purveyor to the Guillotine.” Born in Herouël, a by in the Aisne department, he was the son of a seigneurial landowner. He studied lag and in 1774 obtained a position as prosecutor procureur attached to the Châtelet in Paris. He sold that office in 1781 to pay off his debts and became a clerk under the lieutenant-general of police.

    Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville. artighet of Wikipedia.

    Fouquier-Tinville married his first wife, Geneviève-Dorothée Saugnier, in 1775. They then had five children. However, she died in 1782 and so four months after her death, he married a second time. His second wife was Henriette Jeanne Gérard d’Arcourt and they had three children together.

    In the late 1780s Fouquier-Tinville become active in politics in his section and

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    Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville

    French lawyer and public prosecutor

    Antoine Quentin Fouquier dem Tinville

    Antoine Fouquier Tinville during the Reign of Terror

    Born10 June 1746

    Herouël, Aisne

    Died7 May 1795(1795-05-07) (aged 48)

    Paris, France

    Cause of deathGuillotine
    OccupationLawyer

    Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville (French pronunciation:[ɑ̃twankɑ̃tɛ̃fukjetɛ̃vil], 10 June 1746 – 7 May 1795), also called Fouquier-Tinville and nicknamed posthumously the Provider of the Guillotine[1] was a French lawyer and accusateur public of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror.

    From March 1793 he served as the "public prosecutor" in Paris, demanding the execution of numerous accused individuals, including famous ones, like Marie-Antoinette, Danton or Robespierre and overseeing the sentencing of over two thousand of them to the guillotine.[2] In April

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    ‘A man of mild manners’: Fouquier-Tinville joins the Tribunal Revolutionnaire

    ‘Selfish and wicked men’: the Committee of Public Safety

    ‘No exception or immunity’: the Law of Suspects and the Law of 22 Priarial

    ‘Plots and conspiracies’: the trial of Princess Elisabeth de Bourbon

    ‘Down with the tyrant’: Robespierre goes to the guillotine

    ‘That Monster’ falls: the denunciation of Fouquier-Tinville

    Full Circle: Carrier is executed

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    ‘Odious beyond its original perversion’: Fouquier-Tinville and the Tribunal Revolutionnaire of

    By Stephen Millar

    “If the innocent are spared, too many of the guilty will escape.”

    -- Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois (19 June 1749 – 8 June 1796), member of the Committee of Public Safety, at

    “The rich, the merchants, are all monopolizers, all anti-revolutionists; denounce them to me, and I will have all thei