The Public Prosecutor of the Terror Antoine Quentin Fouquier Tinville
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A LETTER OF RESIGNATION 35 of affairs. At the beginning of 1793, he was appointed deputy to the Public Prosecutor of the Criminal Tribunal of the Department of Paris, and on February 9, deputy for the Procurator of the Commune of Paris ; but he resigned this post in order that he might retain that of deputy to the Public Prosecutor of the Criminal Tribunal, as being more suited to his abilities and tastes. Three days later he wrote to the Procurator-Syndic of the Tribunal for the district of Saint-Quentin : " Paris, this 12th February, 1793, year II. of the Republic. " Citizen Procurator-Syndic, " At the moment when I was elected by my fellow- citizens to the position of judge of the Tribunal for the district of Saint-Quentin, you know that I held the position of director of the jury d'accusation to the pr
...ovisional Criminal Tribunal established on August 17 last; at least I informed you of this. The duties of this latter position did not allow me to be present at the installation of the Tribunal, and since its suppression I have been busied with the distribution of all the suits in the ten Tribunals. This task has led me further than I expected, and at the moment when I was preparing to take up my duties, the electoral body appointed me to be one of the Public Prosecutors of the Criminal Tribunal of the Department of Paris. This position, which I believed it my duty to accept both on account of its importance and as a return for the confidence shown me by this great city, does not permit me to take up the duties of judge of the Tribunal of the district of Saint-Quentin, and by this present letter I place my resignation in your hands. It is not without some regret that I tender my resignation, because it would have enabled me to live among my fellow-citizens and my fami...
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