The spot where the gallant Charette was shot, with several other
leaders of the Vendean army, is shown; and in the cemetery, a large
mound of earth marks the place where the bodies were thrown in, at the
time of the "_Fuzillades_" when the infamous Carrier presided at the
execution of the brave Royalists.[7] The print beneath represents this
monster on the banks of the Loire directing the Noyades.

[Illustration]

[Footnote 7: Chaque nuit on venait en prendre par centaines, pour les
mettre sur les bateaux. Là on liait les malheureux deux à deux, et
on les poussait dans l'eau à coups de baïonette. On saisissait
indistinctement tout ce qui se trouvait à l'entrepôt, tellement
qu'on noya un jour l'état major d'une corvette Anglaise, qui était
prisonnier de guerre. Une autre fois, Carrier, voulant donner un
exemple de l'austérité des moeurs républicaines, fit enfermer trois
cent filles publiques de la ville, et les malheureuses créatures
furent noyées. Enfin, l'on estime qu'il a péri à l'entrepôt quinze
mille personnes en un mois.--_Mémoires de Madame la Marquise de
Laroche-Jaquelin_.]

At the end of a fine avenue of trees, on the Boulevard, is a large
and splendid mansion built by that Deputy, and which is at present
inhabited by a merchant. Carrier's mistress (to whom he left it,
together with a very considerable fortune, amassed from the spoils
of his plunder, and the murder of the innocent inhabitants) was very
lately sentenced to two years' hard labour for some crime she had
committed: and it is no less remarkable, that, of the remaining
inhabitants known to have participated in the atrocities of that
frightful period, there is not one but is reduced to poverty, and most