Citations:republican marriage

English citations of republican marriage, Republican marriage, and Republican Marriage

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Form of human execution by tying two people together naked and drowning them.

1. 2006, Ruth Scurr, Fatal Purity: Robespierre And the French Revolution, p. 305:
   • Among other atrocities, he had instituted a new version of republican marriage, which involved tying a naked man and woman together and drowning them.
2. 2002, William Stafford, English Feminists and Their Opponents in the 1790s: unsex'd and proper females, p. 161:
   • In Nantes, young women were publicly stripped naked, tied to young men in a republican marriage, sabred and thrown into the river.
3. 1997, Steven Blakemore, Crisis in Representation: Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams and the Rewriting of the French Revolution, p. 212:
   • Innocent young women were unclothed in the presence of [Jacobin] monsters; and to add a deeper horror... were tied to young men, and both were cut down with sabres, or thrown into the river; and this kind of murder was called a republican marriage.
4. 1994, Leah Bendavid-Val, National Geographic, p. 44:
   • First the "republican marriage": nude couples bound together and thrown into the water.
5. 1907, Henry Smith Williams, The Historians' History of the World, p. 330:

   By degrees, daylight itself witnesses Noyades: women and men are tied together, feet and feet, hands and hands; and flung in: this they call Mariage Républicain, Republican Marriage.

6. 1850, Archibald Alison and Edward Sherman Gould, History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, p. 44:
   • A Revolutionary Tribunal was established [at Nantes ], of which Carrier was the presiding demon—Carrier, known in all nations as the inventor of that last of barbarous atrocities, the Republican Marriage, in which two persons of different sexes, generally an old man and an old woman, or a young man and a young woman, bereft of every kind of clothing, were bound together before the multitude, exposed in a boat in that situation for half an hour or more, and then thrown into the river.
7. 1845, Catharine Esther Beecher, The Duty of American Women to Their Country, p. 18:
   • Another method was called the Republican Marriage. By this, two persons of the opposite sex, generally an old person and a young one, were bereft of all clothing, then tied together, and, after being tortured a while, thrown into the waves.