Fouquier-Tinville

(French fukjetɛ̃vil)

(Biography) 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

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He triggered the wave of executions with little or no trial, often in writing as testified by the late Ayatollahs Sadeq Khalkhali, the Iranian version of Fouquier-Tinville, France's Judge Blood.

Iran must confront its past to move forwards

The two-part trial of Fouquier-Tinville, the chief prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal in 1793-94, added to the momentum in favor of retributive justice.