drownings at Nantes

When

17 Nov 1793 – 31 Jan 1794

Kind

Massacre

Coordinates

47.22° N, 1.55° W

Description

mass executions by drowning in Nantes during the French Revolution

Executions in France during the Reign of Terror (1793–94)

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, was cast into the river Loire and drowned on the orders of Jean-Baptist…

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