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Madame Roland's Final Days
- Madame Roland was tried under the speedy new rules and executed on November 8, 1793, after writing memoirs in the Conciergerie.
- Her husband Jean-Marie Roland later killed himself near Rouen upon learning of her death.
Colot's Terror In Leòn
- Jean-Marie Colot de Bois replaced Cuton in León and escalated reprisals with nightly house searches and mass executions.
- By April 1794 roughly two thousand people had been killed there under his oversight.
Carrier's 'Republican Baptisms'
- Jean-Baptiste Carrier in Nantes organized drownings by sinking barges filled with prisoners in the Loire.
- Between two and four thousand people were likely drowned there over winter 1793–1794.