Revolutionary justice in Nantes

The revolutionary justice with Nantes appeared in several forms: the revolutionary Tribunal created in 1793 was first of all called extraordinary criminal Tribunal, then the revolutionary on April 18th, 1793 Tribunal. October 30th, 1793, a decree of Francastel and Jean-Baptiste Carrier specified his competences. The drownings, executions without judgment create at the instigation of Francastel and Jean-Baptiste Carrier and the revolutionary Committee of Nantes.

Various forms of revolutionary justice in Nantes

Under the Terror, Nantes knew all the forms of political justice: the revolutionary Tribunal sufficient step, one added the military commissions to him, appreciably more expeditious. Not enough with the taste of Jean-Baptiste Carrier and the revolutionary Committee of Nantes which have good year to resort to the executions without judgment and in particular to the Noyade S.

Creation of the revolutionary Tribunal

The revolutionary Tribunal is born at spring 1793. It bears initially the name of criminal court extraordinary until the decree of April 18th, 1793 which modifies its noun. Another decree, goes back this time to it of October 30th, 1793 and signed by Francastel and Jean-Baptiste Carrier, specifies his competences.

Competences

To be submitted in front of the revolutionary Tribunal, the defendants must be marked of armed uprising, material aid and moral with the rebellion, of monopolization of food products of first need, Agiotage… a big part is made with the Délit of opinion: thus are likely to find itself in front of the court " those which declared that at the moment when the " brigands" would return in Nantes, they would give to their windows the signs of the rebellion. Those which by their speeches, testified the desire to learn the triumph from the rebels; applauded, expressed their joy with the news, true or false, of their succès" …

Working life

The most intense working life of the revolutionary tribunal of Nantes is placed during the stay of Jean-Baptiste Carrier. It is also time when it is shown most pitiless: hundred fifty-eight marked death sentences in less than one hundred days.

Assessment for the fifteen months of existence

For fifteen months of existence, of March 1793 in May 1794, the assessment is the following:

Death sentences: 273
Sorrows of Prison: 168
Deportation S: 42
References for lack of denunciations: 171
Payments: 388

Sometimes sanguinary, sometimes lenient, the revolutionary tribunal of Nantes seems to have hesitated between invites of its president François Louis Phelippes-Tronjolly and the express insurance of the Public prosecutor Goudet.

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