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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") / Bridgeman Images