Fouquier-Tinville

Fouquier-Tinville (1746-1795), full name Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville, was a merciless French revolutionary, born near Artois. He was member of the Jacobin Club, Attorney-General of the Revolutionary Tribunal, and purveyor of the guillotine. He was guillotined himself after the fall of Robespierre.

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