Historical Figures

Fouquier-Tinville Antoine Quentin (1746 -1795)

He is the cousin of Camille Desmoulins, who grants him a place as director of a jury. Then things accelerated and he became a public prosecutor at the Revolutionary Court. He will be ruthless and becomes the official supplier of the guillotine. He will send Marie-Antoinette, the Girondins and the various popular factions, he always worked meticulously by establishing precise reports... He opposes the laws of Prairial which removes the defense of the accused. He was guillotined during the Thermidorian reaction along with other members of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Terror.