Fourth Drownings
The drownings of 23 December 1793 (3 Nivôse, Year II) were recorded by three different accounts, with the accuracy of least two stories verified and confirmed. This time, Pierre Robin, Fouquet, and their accomplishes forced approximately eight hundred captured 'royalist sympathizers' of all ages and sexes onto two boats, which only sailed as far as Chantenay and drowned them.
Among the most humiliating drownings were what was termed the 'underwater marriages', where a priest and a nun, stripped naked, were tied together before they were drowned. These drownings were also called 'republican baptisms' or 'republican marriages.'
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