Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville

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Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan kɑ̃tɛ̃ fukje tɛ̃vil], 10 June 1746 – 7 May 1795), also called Fouquier-Tinville and nicknamed posthumously the Provider of the Guillotine was a French lawyer and accusateur public (public prosecutor) 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 such famous persons as Marie-Antoinette, Danton and Robespierre. He oversaw the sentencing of over two thousand people to the guillotine. In April 1794, it was decreed to centralise the investigation of court records and to bring all the political suspects in France to the Revolutionary Tribunal to Paris. Following the events of 10 Thermidor, he was arrested in early August. He was tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal as one of the major figures responsible for the excesses and injustices that marked the period of the Reign...

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