Drownings at Nantes
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title:
Drownings at Nantes
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The drownings at Nantes were a series of mass executions by drowning during the Reign of Terror in Nantes, France, that occurred between November 1793 and February 1794. During this period, anyone arrested and jailed for not consistently supporting the Revolution, or suspected of being a royalist sympathizer, especially Catholic priests and nuns, were cast into the river Loire and drowned on the orders of Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the representative-on-mission in Nantes. Before the drownings ceased
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Series of mass executions in Nantes, France, during the Reign of Terror (1793–94)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drownings_at_Nantes
date created:
2005-08-25T22:17:15Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T10:39:57Z
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