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The precise number of victims is not known. According to Roger Dupuy, there were between 7 and 11 drowning executions, with 300 to 400 victims each time. [ 7 ] According to Jacques Hussenet, 1,800 to 4,800 people drowned on the orders of Carrier, and perhaps 2,000 others drowned on the orders by other Republican revolutionaries in Nantes. [ 8 ]
French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution (1 C, 146 P) Pages in category "People executed by guillotine during the French Revolution" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen-SS ...
Louis XVI and his family being transferred to the Temple Prison on 13 August 1792. Engraving by Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, 1792.. Following the attack on the Tuileries Palace during the insurrection of 10 August 1792, King Louis XVI was imprisoned at the Temple Prison in Paris, along with his wife Marie Antoinette, their two children and his younger sister Élisabeth.
Religious elements that long stood as symbols of stability for the French people, were replaced by views on reason and scientific thought. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The radical revolutionaries and their supporters desired a cultural revolution that would rid the French state of all Christian influence. [ 26 ]
English prisoners executed by French troops under Joan of Arc and John II, Duke of Alençon: Siege of Chaumont 1434: Chaumont 100 Burgundian Army Garrison hanged by Philip the Good: Vicques massacre August 1434: Vicques: Unknown Mercenaries in English service Mercenaries in English service kill a large number of Normans [13] Lihons massacre ...
The Martyrs of Compiègne were the 16 members of the Carmel of Compiègne, France: 11 Discalced Carmelite nuns, three lay sisters, and two externs (or tertiaries).They were executed by the guillotine towards the end of the Reign of Terror, at what is now the Place de la Nation in Paris on 17 July 1794, and are venerated as martyr saints of the Catholic Church.
People executed during the French Revolution (1 C, 12 P) T. People executed for treason against France (1 C, 18 P) This page was last edited on 2 April 2018, at 18 ...