The public prosecutor was instituted during the French Revolution by the decree of December 1, 1790. In each criminal court a magistrate was charged with prosecuting the accusation in the name of the king. The other judges were elected.

The public prosecutor was responsible for monitoring the police officers in the department. The number of public accusers was set at two for each court.

Lallier and Pierre-François Réal were the first two public accusers of the Paris Criminal Court.

It was by the decree of March 10, 1793 that the Revolutionary Tribunal was created and the appointment of a public prosecutor and his two substitutes to this Tribunal. Louis-Joseph Faure was the first public prosecutor named, but he preferred to give up this post, it was Fouquier-Tinville who replaced him. Sourceschange the code

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