Research topic: Jean Baptiste Carrier

Jean Baptiste Carrier , 1756-94, French Revolutionary. An extreme Jacobin, he demanded the establishment of a revolutionary tribunal, and, as a revolutionary representative to Nantes in the Reign of Terror, he instituted noyades, or wholesale drownings, and committed other atrocities. Although he was denounced to the Convention, of which he was a member, and was recalled to Paris, he temporarily escaped punishment during the Thermidorian reaction (July, 1794; see Thermidor ). In November, however, he was tried by the Convention and executed. Author not available, CARRIER, JEAN... Read more