Fouquier-Tinville

American  

[foo-kyey-tan-veel] / fu kyeɪ tɛ̃ˈvil /

noun

1. Antoine Quentin 1747?–95, French revolutionist: prosecutor during the Reign of Terror.

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Fouquier-Tinville British  

/ fukjetɛ̃vil /

noun

1. Antoine Quentin (ɑ̃twan kɑ̃tɛ̃). 1746–95, French revolutionary; as public prosecutor (1793–94) during the Reign of Terror, he sanctioned the guillotining of Desmoulins, Danton, and Robespierre

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Example Sentences

Knowing the characters of Robespierre, of Saint-Just, of Fouquier-Tinville, I should like to have seen them revenge themselves a little on those who triumphed over them.

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He brought about the accusation of Fouquier-Tinville, and of J. B. Carrier, the deportation of B. Bar�re, and the arrest of the last Montagnards.

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Weigh all this, and say whether Fouquier-Tinville did anything worse.

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But they gave him for public prosecutor one Raoux, a little wizened wisp of a man, a shoemaker and bold orator of the bars, who in his readiness of denunciation threw Fouquier-Tinville into the shade, and in irreverence and insolence approached Raoul Rigault himself.

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Aided by famine, by the suppression of the maximum, and by the imminent bankruptcy of the assignats, they endeavoured to arouse the working classes and the former Hanriot companies against a government which was trying to destroy the republic, and had broken the busts of Marat and guillotined Carrier and Fouquier-Tinville, the former public prosecutor.

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