When the French Government Drowned its citizens during the French Revolution

During the French Revolution, hundreds of citizens were drowned in the Loire River.

The Drownings at Nantes in 1793, painting by Joseph Aubert (1882), Musée d’art et d’histoire de CholetSource:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Noyades_Nantes.jpg

It is the river Loire in Nantes, France. France was entangled in a civil war between the monarchists and the democracy supporters. A boat approached the middle of the river in broad daylight.