Meaning of republican marriage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An alleged form of execution 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.
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2. Alternative letter-case form of republican marriage.
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Examples

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

“"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."”

“A Revolutionary Tribunal was established [at Nantes ], of which [Jean Paul] 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.”

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