Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, a French revolutionist, born in Herouel, near St. Quen-tin, in 1747, guillotined in Paris, May 7, 1795. He studied law in Paris, was for a time procurator at the Chatelet, which place he lost by his misconduct, and afterward obtained that of police clerk. Ruined by vices and harassed by debts, he became an agent for the police, and after the establishment of the revolutionary tribunal, March 10, 1793, was advanced to the post of public accuser before it. From that time till July 28, 1794, he was the indefatigable purveyor of the guillotine. Indifferent to friends and enemies, with equal remorseless-ness he sent to death Bailly and Danton, Yer-gniaud and Hebert,Marie Antoinette and Robespierre. Soon after the fall of Robespierre the convention brought him to trial, and he was condemned and executed.