Editing Republican marriage

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'''Republican marriage''' ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language French]: '''''mariage républicain''''') was a form of execution that allegedly occurred in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes Nantes] during the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror Reign of Terror] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution Revolutionary France] and "involved tying a naked man and woman together and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowning drowning] them". This was reported to have been practiced during the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drownings_at_Nantes drownings at Nantes] (''noyades'') that were ordered by local [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_%28politics%29 Jacobin] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative-on-mission representative-on-mission] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Carrier Jean-Baptiste Carrier] between November 1793 and January 1794 in the city of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes Nantes]. Most accounts indicate that the victims were drowned in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loire_River Loire River], although a few sources describe an alternative means of execution in which the bound couple is run through with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword sword], either before, or instead of drowning.

While the executions of men, women and children by drowning in Nantes is not generally disputed, the factual nature of the "republican marriages," in particular, has been doubted by several historians who suspect it to be a legend.The earliest reports of such "marriages" date from 1794, when Carrier was tried for his crimes, and they were soon cited by contemporary counter-revolutionary authors such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Marie_Prudhomme Louis-Marie Prudhomme] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Gabriel_Ambroise_de_Bonald Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald].
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