Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville

Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville

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 178,035 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville is the 4,733rd most popular politician (down from 3,692nd in 2019), the 1,482nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,208th in 2019) and the 369th 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.