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Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville

1746 - 1795

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Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan kɑ̃tɛ̃ fukje tɛ̃vil], 10 June 1746 – 7 May 1795), also called Fouquier-Tinville and nicknamed posthumously the Provider of the Guillotine was a French lawyer and accusateur public of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror. From March 1793 he served as the "public prosecutor" in Paris, demanding the execution of numerous accused individuals, including famous ones, like Marie-Antoinette, Danton or Robespierre and overseeing the sentencing of over two thousand of them to the guillotine. In April 1794, it was decreed to centralise the investigation of court records and to bring all the political suspects in France to the Revolutionary Tribunal to Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville has received more than 191,421 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville is the 3,740th most popular politician (up from 4,722nd in 2019), the 1,161st most popular biography from France (up from 1,477th in 2019) and the 280th most popular French Politician.

Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville was a French public prosecutor during the French Revolution. He was most famous for his involvement in the trial of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville ranks 3,740 out of 19,576. Before him are Heungseon Daewongun, Antiochus XI Epiphanes, Michal, Empress Jitō, Perdiccas III of Macedon, and Mohammed Alim Khan. After him are Ildibad, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Emperor Xiaozong of Song, Volusianus, Sambhaji, and Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville ranks 12. Before him are Gustav III of Sweden, Giuseppe Piazzi, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Maurice Benyovszky, William Jones, and Sophia Magdalena of Denmark. After him are Giovanni Battista Venturi, George XII of Georgia, Tiradentes, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, and Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen. Among people deceased in 1795, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville ranks 6. Before him are Louis XVII of France, Alessandro Cagliostro, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Sayat-Nova, and François-André Danican Philidor. After him are Georg Benda, Carl Michael Bellman, Ahilyabai Holkar, Josiah Wedgwood, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, and Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville ranks 1,161 out of 6,770. Before him are André Maginot (1877), André Bazin (1918), Francis, Count of Vendôme (1470), Henry I of Navarre (1244), Theuderic II (587), and André Weil (1906). After him are Balthus (1908), Jan Gossaert (1478), Jean-Claude Carrière (1931), Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (1197), Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1655), and B. H. Liddell Hart (1895).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville ranks 280. Before him are Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (1654), Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1580), André Maginot (1877), Francis, Count of Vendôme (1470), Henry I of Navarre (1244), and Theuderic II (587). After him are Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (1197), Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1655), Sigebert II (602), Gundobad (500), Tancred of Hauteville (980), and Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (1346).

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