Fouquier-Tinville
Americannoun
noun
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The public prosecutor, Fouquier-Tinville, went every day to the "Committee of Public Safety" to procure the list of the proscribed, who were immediately placed in the Conciergerie to await trial.
From A Short History of France by Parmele, Mary Platt
Fouquier-Tinville had seen such scraps of paper before.
From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
Fouquier-Tinville afterward attained to a sombre fame in this position.
From The Theory of Social Revolutions by Adams, Brooks
Fouquier-Tinville died without understanding why he was condemned, and from the revolutionary point of view his condemnation was not justifiable.
From The Psychology of Revolution by Le Bon, Gustave
I would not be Fouquier-Tinville to the former nor butcher to the latter; but my affection then has reached its limit.
From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)
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