Fouquier-Tinville, a merciless revolutionary, born near Artois; member of the Jacobin Club, Attorney-General of the Revolutionary Tribunal, purveyor of the guillotine; was guillotined himself after the fall of Robespierre (1747‒1795).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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