Jean-Baptiste Carrier was a French Revolutionary, politician and convicted war criminal most notable for his actions in the War in the Vendée during the Reign of Terror.
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Plaque in Nantes: "Former Coffee Warehouse Jail. During the Terror, during the winter of 1793-1794, at the time of the mission of J.-B. Carrier (who was condemned to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris and guillotined on 16 December 1794), 8 to 9,000 citizens of the Vendée, Anjou, the Nantes region, and Poitou - men, women, and children - were incarcerated at this jail. Nearly all perished. Victims of starvation and typhus were shot near Gigant quarry or drowned in the Loire river. -- The people of Nantes were equal prey to the Terror."
The Drownings at Nantes, engraving after a drawing by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux
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Sketch of Carrier during his trial, by Vivant DenonActivists from France 6
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Jean-Baptiste Carrier was a French Revolutionary, politician and convicted war criminal most notable for his actions in the War in the Vendée during the Reign of Terror. While under orders to suppress a Royalist counter-revolution, he commanded the execution of 4,000 civilians, mainly priests, women and children in Nantes, some by drowning in the river Loire, which Carrier described as "the National Bathtub". After the fall of the Robespierre government, Carrier was tried for war crimes by the Revolutionary Tribunal, found guilty, and executed.
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