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The Martyrs of Compiègne were the 16 members of the Carmel of Compiègne, France: 11 Discalced Carmelite nuns, three lay sisters, and two externs (or tertiaries).They were executed by the guillotine towards the end of the Reign of Terror, at what is now the Place de la Nation in Paris on 17 July 1794, and are venerated as martyr saints of the Catholic Church.
With the enactment of the law, the number of executions greatly increased, and the period from this time to the Thermidorian Reaction became known as "The Great Terror" (French: la Grande Terreur). Between 10 June and 27 July, another 1,366 were executed, causing fear among Collot d'Herbois, Fouché and Tallien due to their past actions. [70]
Pages in category "People executed by guillotine during the French Revolution" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
During this period, anyone arrested and jailed for not consistently supporting the Revolution, or suspected of being a royalist sympathizer, especially Catholic priests and nuns, were cast into the river Loire and drowned on the orders of Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the representative-on-mission in Nantes. Before the drownings ceased, as many as ...
Day of 21 January 1793 – the death of Louis Capet at the Place de la Révolution, by Charles Monnet (1794). Louis XVI, former King of France since the abolition of the monarchy, was publicly executed on 21 January 1793 during the French Revolution at the Place de la Révolution in Paris.
The September Massacres were a series of killings and summary executions of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792, from Sunday, 2 September until Thursday, 6 September, during the French Revolution.
Pages in category "French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution" The following 146 pages are in this category, out of 146 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
People executed by guillotine during the French Revolution (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "People executed during the French Revolution" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.