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Fouquier Tinville, with sixteen revolutionary Judges and Jurymen, have been tried and executed, at the moment when the instigators of their crimes, Billaud-Varennes, Collot, &c. were sentenced by the Convention to a banishment, which is probably the object of their wishes.
He rose slowly, his ferrety eyes upon her. "How many children have you had?" he rasped, sardonic, his tone a slur, an insult. Faintly her cheeks crimsoned. But her voice was composed, disdainful, as she answered coldly: "Have I not stated that I am not married?" A leer, a dry laugh, a shrug from Tinville to complete the impression he sought to convey, and he sat down again.
Raids were made on the suspected houses: in Paris chiefly where the escaped prisoners might have found refuge, or better still where their helpers and rescuers might still be lurking. Foucquier Tinville, Public Prosecutor, led and conducted these raids, assisted by that bloodthirsty vampire, Merlin.
His own heart was closed to all compassion, and we find in this man the inexorable impassibility of a Laffemas or a Fouquier Tinville, with a refined irony in addition which only added to the cruelty. The moral torture to which he subjected Mme. Acquet is the product of an inquisitor's mind.
He looked, in his ragged, dust-stained clothes, the very personification of the squalid herd which had driven culture, art, refinement to the scaffold in order to make way for sordid vice, and satisfied lusts of hate. A Jacobin orator. Tinville alone had remained silent during Lenoir's impassioned speech. It seemed to be his turn now to become surly.
Fire-works, explosion of, at Paris. First impressions of the French Court. Flanders, the regiment of, arrives at Versailles. Fleurieu, M. Fleury, Joly de. Flight from Paris decided on. Fontainebleau, the peasant at; grand review at. Fontanges, M., de. Forgeries of the Queen's name committed. Fouquier, Tinville.
Much less than had now been said had before this been deemed sufficient to mark as a victim for the revolutionary tribunal some servant of the Republic, and few wished to experience the tender mercies of Fouquier Tinville, the public accuser.
Merlin, still in terror for himself, looked to him for advice; even Tinville was ready to be guided by him.
"I suppose," said Tinville, who was loth to give up his position as leader of these extremists "I suppose, Citizen Lenoir, that you are in position to furnish me with proofs of the Citizen-Deputy's guilt?" "If I furnish you with such proofs, Citizen Tinville," retorted the other, "will you, as Public Prosecutor, carry the indictment through?"
He sat picking his teeth, and staring moodily at the enthusiastic orator, who had so obviously diverted popular feeling in his own direction. And Tinville brooked popularity only for himself. "It is easy to talk now, Citizen er Lenoir. Is that your name? Well, you are a comparative stranger here, Citizen Lenoir, and have not yet proved to the Republic that you can do ought else but talk."
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