Fouquier-Tinville

[ foo-kyey-tan-veel ]

noun

1. An·toine Quen·tin [ah, n, -, twan, kah, n, -, tan], 1747?–95, French revolutionist: prosecutor during the Reign of Terror.

Fouquier-Tinville

/ fukjetɛ̃vil /

noun

1. Fouquier-TinvilleAntoine Quentin17461795MFrenchPOLITICS: revolutionary 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

Example Sentences

Fouquier Tinville here observed, alluding to the sure blow she had given, that she must be well practiced in crime.

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Fouquier-Tinville came next, and his trial did as much harm to his party in the spring as that of Carrier in the preceding autumn.

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Jeffreys, or Fouquier Tinville, could scarcely have dared to make such.

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Fouquier-Tinville's questions had been 'brutal;' offended female honour flung them back on him, with scorn, not without tears.

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Fouquier Tinville, as I have already noticed, was a man of gentle exterior.

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