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    Jean-Baptiste Carrier (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist kaʁje]; 16 March 1756 – 16 December 1794) was a French Revolutionary and politician most notable...
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    nuns, was 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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    (noyades) that were ordered by local Jacobin representative-on-mission Jean-Baptiste Carrier between November 1793 and January 1794 in the city of Nantes. Most...
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  • Hébert. Following the February 1794 recall of Hébertist deputy Jean-Baptiste Carrier from Nantes, where he had been engaged in mass executions to suppress...
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    Mountain. He presided over the persecution of Louis-Marie Turreau and Jean-Baptiste Carrier for their actions during the War in the Vendée. Billaud-Varenne...
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    surpressed the revolt of Lyon against the National Convention, while Jean-Baptiste Carrier ordered the drownings at Nantes. Tallien ensured the operation of...
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    Aimé de Royrand Jean-Nicolas Stofflet Republican leaders: Louis-Alexandre Berthier Jean-Baptiste Carrier Lazare Hoche Jean-Baptiste Kléber Antoine Joseph...
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    Terror – indeed, some of the most feared terrorists, including Jean-Baptiste Carrier and Joseph Fouché had been involved in overthrowing Robespierre...
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    Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray (12 June 1760 – 25 August 1797) was a French novelist, playwright and journalist. Louvet was born in Paris as the son...
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    (1623–1662), mathematician, inventor, Christian apologist (Pensées) Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1756–1794), French revolutionary, was born at Yolet in Auvergne...
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    Brocéliande, Rennes 1953–1955. Carrier, Jean-Baptiste; Carrier, E. H. (1920). Correspondence of Jean-Baptiste Carrier (people's Representative to the...
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    Fouché, Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron, Jean-Lambert Tallien, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, Étienne Christophe Maignet, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois and Georges Couthon...
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    where they intended to continue their struggle. The Convention sent Jean-Baptiste Carrier to Rennes to re-establish order. He arrived on 1 September and remained...
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    Jean-Baptiste Carrier to pacify the region, and over several months Carrier ruthlessly suppressed the Vendée. The local population dubbed Carrier's forces...
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    Antoine-François Momoro Charles-Philippe Ronsin Joseph Le Bon Jean-Baptiste Carrier Jean-Nicolas Pache (Formerly a Girondin) Claude Javogues Indulgents...
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    Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Jean de Cambacérès and Boissy d'Anglas Montagnards opposite to Robespierre like Tallien and Jean-Baptiste Carrier Members of the Committee...
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    April 1792. Other notable executions included Charlotte Corday, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, and Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville. The southern end of the...
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    Lanjuinais ("The Latest Crime of Lanjuinais", Rennes, 1793). Pursued by Jean-Baptiste Carrier, who was sent to stamp out resistance in the west, he lay hidden...
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  • University Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1756–1794), French Revolutionary Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse (1824-1887), French sculptor Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse...
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    1795 and by some of the Représentants en mission. Most notably, Jean-Baptiste Carrier conducted large-scale drownings of priests and nuns in the river...
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    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Non-affiliated extremists Jean-Paul Marat (leader) Jean-Baptiste Carrier François Chabot Stanislas-Marie Maillard Theroigne de...
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    president of the convention, and helped bring about the impeachment of Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the perpetrator of mass executions by drowning (noyades) of royalist...
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    role in driving the British from Toulon. February 6: Recall of Jean-Baptiste Carrier from Nantes. As official delegate of the convention, he was responsible...
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    members of the Terror involved in atrocities in Nantes, especially Jean-Baptiste Carrier. Organized gangs formed, the jeunesse doree or Muscadins, who harassed...
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    for the rest of her life. During the Terror, sparked in Nantes by Jean-Baptiste Carrier, Trébuchet returned to Châteaubriant. But on February 11, 1796,...
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    000 were drowned in the Loire at Nantes under the supervision of Jean-Baptiste Carrier. Historian Reynald Secher claims that as many as 117,000 died between...
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  • in mass executions (noyades) for treason under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Carrier; priests and nuns were among the mass executions at Lyons, for separatism...
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    brought about the accusation of Antoine Fouquier-Tinville, and of Jean-Baptiste Carrier, and the arrest of the last Montagnards. Being sent by the Directory...
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  • since his testimony is said to have weighed heavily at the trial of Jean-Baptiste Carrier. Orczy's depiction is loosely based on Bernard-François, marquis...
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    the Reign of Terror. On 16 December 1794 (26 Frimaire Year III) Jean-Baptiste Carrier was sentenced to death and executed.: 462  On 6 May 1795 (17 Floreal...
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