republican marriage

republican marriage
A form of human execution used during the French Revolution in which a man and woman were tied together naked, exposed to public view for a time in this condition, and then stabbed, shot, or thrown into a body of water to drown.

Among other atrocities, he had instituted a new version of republican marriage, which involved tying a naked man and woman together and drowning them.


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