Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville, also called Fouquier-Tinville and nicknamed posthumously the Provider of the Guillotine was a French lawyer and accusateur public of the Revolutionary Tribunal du
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Antoine Fouquier-Tinville, engraving by François Bonneville, Paris, BnF (National Library of France), Department of Prints and Photography, 1796.
Act of death sentence signed by Fouquier Tinville, public accuser to the committee of public safety in the Revolutionary Tribunal.
Conciergerie in 1790; the medieval towers still exist.
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The Conciergerie is a former courthouse and prison in Paris, France located on the west of the Île de la Cité below the Palais de Justice. It was originally part of the former royal palace, the Palais
The Conciergerie
Plan of the Palace and Conciergerie in 1380 and 1754 (double-click for full size)
A banquet hosted by Charles V of France in honour of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor in the Great Hall (1378)
Palais de la Cité in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1412–1416). Conciergerie at left rear