The Drownings at Nantes were a series of mass killings that took place in Nantes, France from November 1793 to February 1794 during the Reign of Terror. Overseen by Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the representative-on-mission from Paris, thousands of counter-revolutionary prisoners were taken out on barges to the middle of the Loire River where they were sunk. These mass drownings, or noyades, were at...