Posted on 05/06/2023 9:36:17 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1795, the attorney who had engineered the Terror was guillotined for engineering the Terror.
Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville (English Wikipedia page | French), or just plain Fouquier-Tinville, had emerged during the Revolution from penurious obscurity to wrangle a jury foreman’s position courtesy of his connection to Camille Desmoulins. When Desmoulins ally Georges Danton spearheaded creation of a Revolutionary Tribunal (French link), Fouquier-Tinville drew the choice gig of Public Prosecutor.
From that perch, he would supply the arbitrary exercises of the Committee of Public Safety their (increasingly scanty) scaffolding of formal legality in Paris’s greatest show trials.
Charlotte Corday.
The Girondists.
Marie Antoinette.....
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We should bring back the guillotine for those “who gave villainy the cover of law”. It would be kept plenty busy!
Of course, Fauci, Birx and Biden would be current examples.
Way more than that need to be hanged. I am insistent on that. So, after the fact, hang me. I don’t care as long as justice is served to this bunch.
The January 6 prosecutors should meet this fate.
I agree, after a fair trial, of course.
I agree, after a fair trial, of course.
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