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CARRIER, JEAN BAPTISTE (1956-1794)

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CARRIER, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE (1956-1794) , See also:French Revolutionist and Terrorist, was See also:born at Yolet, a See also:village near See also:Aurillac in Upper See also:Auvergne. In 1790 he was a See also:country See also:attorney (counsellor for the bailliage of Aurillac) and in 1792 he was chosen See also:deputy to the See also:National See also:Convention. He was already known as one of the influential members of the See also:Cordeliers dub and ofthat of the See also:Jacobins. After the subjugation of See also:Flanders he was one of the commissioners nominated in the See also:close of 1792 by the Convention, and sent into that country In the following See also:year he took See also:part in establishing the Revolutionary Tribunal. He voted for the See also:death of See also:Louis XVI., was one of the first to See also:call for the See also:arrest of the See also:duke of See also:Orleans, and took a prominent part in the overthrow of the See also:Girondists (on the 31st of May). After a See also:mission into See also:Normandy, Carrier was sent, See also:early in See also:October 1793, to See also:Nantes, under orders from the Convention to suppress the revolt which was raging there, by the most severe See also:measures. Nothing loth, he established a revolutionary tribunal, and formed a See also:body of desperate men, called the See also:Legion of See also:Marat, for the purpose of destroying in the swiftest way the masses of prisoners heaped in the jails. The See also:form of trial was soon discontinued, and the victims were sent to the See also:guillotine or shot or cut down in the prisons en masse. He also had large See also:numbers of prisoners put on See also:board vessels with See also:trap doors for bottoms, and sunk in the See also:Loire. This atrocious See also:process, known as the Noyades of Nantes, gained for Carrier a reputation for wanton See also:cruelty. Since in his mission to Normandy he had been very moderate, it is possible that, as he was See also:nervous and See also:ill when sent to Nantes, his mind had become unbalanced by the atrocities committed by the Vendean and royalist armies. Naturally, the stories told of him are not all true.

He was recalled by the See also:

Committee of Public Safety on the 8th of See also:February 1794, took part in the attack on See also:Robespierre on the 9th See also:Thermidor, but was himself brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal on the 11th and guillotined on the 16th of See also:November 1794. See See also:Comte See also:Fleury, Carrier a Nantes, 1793-1794 (See also:Paris, 1897) See also:Alfred Lallie, J. B. Carrier, representant du See also:Cantal a la Convention 1756-1794 d'apres de nouveaux documents (Paris, 1901). These See also:works, and the others of Lallie, are inspired by strong royalist sympathies and are not altogether to be accepted.

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