ELD4952545 French revolution and anti-revolutionary movements: drowning in Nantes during the Terror (1793 - 1794) during which the Republicans drowned in the Loire people suspected of being anti-revolutionaries (royalists, clergymen...) by order of Jean Baptiste Carrier (1756-1794). 19th century (engraving from "Memoires de Sanson"); Private Collection; (add.info.: 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 Loire and drowned on the orders of Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the representative-on-mission in Nantes.); Photo by The Holbarn Archive.