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A murder by drowning; especially, one of those carried out during the French .
*1837 , (Thomas Carlyle), The French Revolution :
*: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.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 486:
*:Alongside this, there were the infamous noyades : perhaps 2,000 alleged counter-revolutionaries strapped in to barges were towed into the river Loire where the barges were scuppered, leaving the victims to drown.
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