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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 ]
On 4 September 2013, German president Joachim Gauck and French president François Hollande visited the ghost village of Oradour-sur-Glane. A joint news conference broadcast by the two leaders followed their tour of the site. [26] This was the first time a German president had come to the site of one of the biggest World War II massacres on ...
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]
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 film Female Agents (French: Les Femmes de l'ombre), set during World War II, has a scene where two of the female agents walk past a recruitment poster for the Milice which says "Against Communism / French Militia / Secretary-General Joseph Darnand". In the Doctor Who audio story Resistance, the Doctor and Polly have to evade the Milice in 1944.
Picpus Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Picpus, ) is the largest private cemetery in Paris, France, and is located in the 12th arrondissement.It was created from land seized from the convent of the Chanoinesses de St-Augustin, during the French Revolution.
The Tulle massacre was the roundup and summary execution of civilians in the French town of Tulle by the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich in June 1944, three days after the D-Day landings in World War II.