Along France's river of romance: . u Salut Public sent him down to suppressthat rebellion. The Bloody Assizes which succeeded therebellion of Monmouth at the end of the seventeenthcentury were as nothing compared with Carriers pro-ceedings at the end of the eighteenth. Swinburnes finepoem occurs at once to the memory, describing how: Carrier came down to the Loire and slewTill all the Avays and the wa\es waxed red :Bound and drowned^ slaying two by and young men, naked and wed. The Vendean prisoners were executed without , the victims were beheaded as quickly as theexecu
Along France's river of romance: . u Salut Public sent him down to suppressthat rebellion. The Bloody Assizes which succeeded therebellion of Monmouth at the end of the seventeenthcentury were as nothing compared with Carriers pro-ceedings at the end of the eighteenth. Swinburnes finepoem occurs at once to the memory, describing how: Carrier came down to the Loire and slewTill all the Avays and the wa\es waxed red :Bound and drowned^ slaying two by and young men, naked and wed. The Vendean prisoners were executed without , the victims were beheaded as quickly as theexecutioner could turn them off. Then, as this methodwas too slow, they were stood against a wall and shot at NANTES 309 by the soldiery in parties of hundreds at a time. Eventhis was not sufficient to gratify Carriers lust for blood,and he finally revived, in a more awful form, the noyadesthat were first employed at Amboise. Barges fullof prisoners were floated out into the middle of theLoire, and then scuttled. In four months between. On the Quay, Nantes six and nine thousand men and women were killed,without trial, by Carriers orders. It is pleasant toknow that soon afterwards he was himself denouncedand guillotined. A single railway line, connecting the terminus withthe line for St. Nazaire and Le Croisic, runs along thequay by the waterside. Beyond it, and opposite thechateau, is the He Gloriette, a rather dismal island, 310 THE LOIRE given over mostly to factories, and containing a largehospital, and further on still are some prettier the wing, so to speak, of Ille Gloriette is a tinyislet on the Nantes side, called the He Feydeau, justopposite the place du Commerce and the large postoffice, at the point where the canalised Erdre flowsinto the Loire. The houses on this islet, alongthe Quai Duguay-Trouin, are very picturesque; theylean against one another at curious angles, and areall out of the straight, as though a mild earthquakehad shaken them up. The waterway
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