Historedia
Person

Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville

Events
1
Episodes
4
Years
1794–1795

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Suppression of the Revolutionary Tribunal

    1794–1795

    Role: Former Chief Prosecutor (accusateur public), convicted on 6 May 1795 and guillotined the following day (7 May 1795); the passage does not state the city

    1. August 1794 · Paris, seat of the Revolutionary TribunalThermidorian Retention and Reform of the Tribunal

      After Thermidor the Tribunal survived initial expectations of abolition, but the Prairial Laws were revoked and its judges were replaced.

    2. 16 December 1794 – 7 May 1795 · City not stated in the passages; convictions and executions occurred under the Convention's authorityExecution of the Tribunal's Former Leadership

      In December 1794 and May 1795 the Convention executed Carrier, Herman, Fouquier-Tinville, and former judges and jurors of the Tribunal.

    3. 1795 (First White Terror) · Parts of France, particularly the South EastFirst White Terror Against Tribunal Associates

      With no official provincial process, anti-Jacobin mobs in 1795 attacked people associated with local revolutionary tribunals, especially in the South East.

    4. 31 May 1795 · Paris, seat of the Revolutionary TribunalDiscontinuation of the Revolutionary Tribunal

      After most figures tied to the radical government had been eliminated, the Revolutionary Tribunal was finally discontinued in Paris on 31 May 1795.

Sources

  1. Revolutionary Tribunal Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-22