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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.
Number 10 was occupied in 1775 by the 6th Duke of Aumont beginning in 1775. He ceded it in 1788 to the Duke of Crillon, who emigrated from France during the French Revolution. The Duchess of Crillon returned and she and her descendants occupied it from 1820 until 1904. in 1909 it became a hotel for wealthy travellers, the Hôtel de Crillon. [27]
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 ...
Pages in category "French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution" The following 146 pages are in this category, out of 146 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
27 Frenchmen executed as reprisal for French Resistance attack. [49] Vallée de la Saulx massacre: 28 August 1944: Vallée de la Saulx: 86 3rd Panzergrenadier Division: 86 French villagers massacred by 3rd Panzergrenadier Division [50] Second Saint-Julien massacre: 10 September 1944: Saint-Julien-de-Crempse: 17 French resistance
[12] [13] The exact number of victims is not known, as over 440 people had uncertain fates, including from 22 to 200 Swiss soldiers. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The identity of the perpetrators, called " septembriseurs ", is poorly documented, but a large number were Parisian national guards and provincial federates who had remained in the city since their ...
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 by guillotine during the French Revolution (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "People executed by France by guillotine" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.