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Jean Baptiste Marie Foucquet

A relative of the Abbé Foucquet.

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Also known as Foucquet, Jean-Marie

First appearance: ii a retrospect

Jean Baptiste Marie Foucquet shows up with force in XXVIII: The Midnight Watch. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Referenced as 'Jean-Marie,' the fisherman whose execution for refusing a cockade sparked the revolutionary fervor in Boulogne.
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In XXVIII: The Midnight Watch: Referenced as 'Jean-Marie,' the fisherman whose execution for refusing a cockade sparked the revolutionary fervor in Boulogne.

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MAMarie AntoinetteRORobespierreMBMarguerite Bla…AFAbbé FoucquetFRFrançois-AugusteJBJean Baptiste Marie …

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  • Clergy and royalist figures
  • Revolutionary antagonists and targets
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This is the story's dramatic climax because it marks the emotional and psychological peak where Marguerite's u…

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