The Public Prosecutor of the Terror Antoine Quentin Fouquier Tinville
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One after another there entered and gave evidence the spy Jobert (the Belgian) ; an engraver who knew the prisoner Lavoisien ; Lambert, a trader ; Descaffe, without profession, and Aubert, an innkeeper, who knew the prisoner Marche, an usher. Fouquier-Tinville then began to speak, and expounded his writ of indictment. He described the means by which he would prove his case. No defender answered him, the defence having been suppressed by the law of Prairial. Then the jury were invited to retire ...to their room to dehberate. The President caused the prisoners to with- draw. The Tribunal remained in session. Suddenly there was a thunderbolt. The President of the Revolutionary Tribunal had just been arrested whilst sitting. An order of the Committee of Public Safety ! He was led away. Citizen Maire, one of his assessors, replaced him, and the session went on amid general amazement.^ ' The judgment on Lhuillier and others, to the number of 25, condemned to death, ends thus : — " Given and pronounced on the gth of Thermidor of the second year of the Republic, at the public session at which sat Ren6 Fran9ois Dumas, President, Antoine Marie Maire, Gabriel Delidge, and Jean- Baptiste Henry Antoine F61ix, judges, who have signed this present judgment with the registrar's clerk, and at the moment of the no THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR OF THE TERROR Nothing in Fouquier-TinviUe's attitude betrayed emotion or anxiety.
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