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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. Following the events of the 10th Thermidor, he was arrested early August. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville is the 5,495th most popular politician (down from 3,740th in 2019), the 1,575th most popular biography from France (down from 1,161st in 2019) and the 382nd 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 5,495 out of 19,576. Before him are Henri, Count of Paris, Valerius Valens, Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Gaius Lutatius Catulus, William I, Count of Hainaut, and Stefan Uroš I. After him are Philip IV of Macedon, Charles I of Albret, Tai Wu, Emperor Xianzong of Tang, Perdiccas II of Macedon, and Emperor Taizong of Liao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville ranks 15. Before him are Robert R. Livingston, Maurice Benyovszky, William Jones, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Giovanni Battista Venturi, and George XII of Georgia. After him are Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Infanta Benedita of Portugal, Tiradentes, Izabela Czartoryska, Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, and François-André Vincent. Among people deceased in 1795, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville ranks 12. Before him are Henry Clinton, Ahilyabai Holkar, Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Georg Benda, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, and Carl Michael Bellman. After him are Pieter Boddaert, Samuel Wallis, Josiah Wedgwood, John Sullivan, 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 1,575 out of 6,770. Before him are Joseph Avenol (1879), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1464), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), Guy de Chauliac (1300), and Lolo Ferrari (1963). After him are Jean-François Le Sueur (1760), Michel Serres (1930), Charles II Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers (1609), Georges Picquart (1854), Robert de Montesquiou (1855), and Victorinus (300).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville ranks 382. Before him are Sextus Afranius Burrus (1), Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (1692), Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (1609), Alain Juppé (1945), Joseph Avenol (1879), and Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1464). After him are Victorinus (300), Guillaume de Beaujeu (1300), Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier (1605), Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (1337), Laurent Fabius (1946), and Odo de St Amand (1110).

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