mass drownings in the Loire river in Nantes also called the "republican weddings"; october 1793 (at the time of the wars of the Vendee in France); upon the order of Jean Baptiste Carrier (1756-1794); representative of the national salvation committee; against all prisoners and persons suspected of revolutionary half-heartedness (more than 10000 casualty) he will be denounced; sent bak to Paris in Octobre 1794 and guillotined.