Fouquier-Tinville, Antoine Quentin

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Fouquier-Tinville, Antoine Quentin (äNtwän` käNtăN` f

kyā`-tăNvēl`), 1746–95, French revolutionary. A lawyer, he was public prosecutor (Mar., 1793–July, 1794) of the Revolutionary Tribunal; he personified the ruthlessness of the Reign of Terror Reign of Terror, 1793–94, period of the French Revolution characterized by a wave of executions of presumed enemies of the state. Directed by the Committee of Public Safety, the Revolutionary government's Terror was essentially a war dictatorship, instituted to
..... Click the link for more information. . Among his numerous victims were Marie Antoinette and Georges Danton. After the fall of Maximilien Robespierre Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore , 1758–94, one of the leading figures of the French Revolution. Early Life

A poor youth, he was enabled to study law in Paris through a scholarship.
..... Click the link for more information. , Fouquier-Tinville was tried and guillotined.

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