Fouquier tinville biography of mahatma gandhi

Fouquier-Tinville was born Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville and became a French public prosecutor who, because of his zealous prosecutions during the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, earned the nickname “Purveyor to the Guillotine.” Born in Herouël, a village in the Aisne department, he was the son of a seigneurial landowner.

He studied law and in obtained a position as prosecutor procureur attached to the Châtelet in Paris. He sold that office in to pay off his debts and became a clerk under the lieutenant-general of police.

Fouquier-Tinville married his first wife, Geneviève-Dorothée Saugnier, in They then had five children. However, she died in and so four months after her death, he married a second time. His second wife was Henriette Jeanne Gérard d&#;Arcourt and they had three children together.

In the late s Fouquier-Tinville become active in politics in his section and was a supporter of the sans-