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Very soon it was followed by others, and, custom increasing Carrier's audacity, these drownings there were in all some twenty-three noyades ceased to be conducted in the secrecy of the night, or to be confined to men. They were made presently to include women of whom at one drowning alone, in Novose, three hundred perished under the most revolting circumstances and even little children.
No women went out-doors without a basket, while every man wore a jacket, without which they were taken for aristocrats." Letters of Freron to Moise Bayle, Brumaire 23, Pluviose 5 and 11, Novose 16, II, published by Moise Bayle, also details furnished by Huard, pp. 350-365. Archives Nationales, AF. II., 144.
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