The "coffee warehouse" jail in nantes -- translation of sign text: "former coffee warehouse jail. During the terror, during the winter of 1793-1794, at the time of the mission of j. -b. Carrier (who was condemned to death by the revolutionary tribunal in paris and guillotined on 16 december 1794), 8 to 9,000 citizens of the vendée, anjou, the nantes region, and poitou - men, women, and children - were encarcerated at this jail. Nearly all perished. Victims of starvation and typhus were shot near gigant quarry or drowned in the loire. -- some people of nantes were equal prey to the terror. ".
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