. "Republican marriage (French: mariage r\u00E9publicain) was a form of execution that allegedly occurred in Nantes during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France and \"involved tying a naked man and woman together and drowning them\". This was reported to have been practised during the drownings at Nantes (noyades) that were ordered by local Jacobin representative-on-mission Jean-Baptiste Carrier between November 1793 and January 1794 in the city of Nantes."@en . .