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He was born at Yolet , a village near Aurillac in Upper Auvergne. In 1790 he was a country attorney (counsellor for the bailliage of Aurillac) and in 1792 became deputy to the National Convention. He was already known as one of the influential members of the Cordeliers club and of that of the Jacobin Club. After the subjugation of Flanders he was one of the commissioners nominated in the close of 1792 by the Convention, and sent into that country In the following year he took part in. establishing the Revolutionary Tribunal. He voted for the execution of King Louis XVI of France, was one of the first to call for the arrest of the duke of Orleans, and took a prominent part in the overthrow of the Girondists (on May 31).
After a mission to Normandy, Carrier was sent, early in October 1793, to NantesFor a place in Brazil (pronunciation: NAHN-chees), see Nantes, Brazil Nantes ( Breton: Naoned is a commune in western France, prefecture of the Loire-Atlantique departement and of the Pays de la Loire region''. With 277,728 inhabitants in 1999, Nantes is, under orders from the Convention to suppress the revolt there by the most severe measures. He established a revolutionary tribunal, and formed a body of desperate men, called the Legion of MaratJean-Paul Marat ( May 24, 1743 July 13, 1793), was a Swiss-born scientist and physician, who made much of his career in England, but is best known as a French Revolutionary. A member of the radical Jacobin faction during the French Revolution, he helped t, to dispose quickly of the masses of prisoners heaped in the jails. The form of trial was soon discontinued, and the victims were sent to the guillotineLons-le-Saunier, 1878 The guillotine is a machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation. It consists of a tall upright frame (approx 4m high) from which is suspended a heavy triangular blade (approx 40kg). The blade is hauled to t or shot or cut down in the prisons en masse. He also had large numbers of prisoners put on board vessels with trap doors for bottoms, and sunk in the LoireLoire Details Information Number42 Region Rhone-Alpes Prefecture Saint-Etienne Subprefectures Montbrison Roanne Population Total ( 1999) Density Ranked 27th 728,524 152 /km² Area 4,781 km² Arrondissements 3 Cantons 40 Communes 327 President of the general.
This process, known as the Noyades of Nantes, gained Carrier a reputation for wanton cruelty. In his mission to Normandy he had been very moderate, and it has been suggested that his mind had become unbalanced by the atrocities committed by the Vendean and royalist armies. Naturally, the stories told of him are not all true. He was recalled by the Committee of Public SafetyThe Committee of Public Safety ( French: Comite de Salut Public , set up by the National Convention on April 6, 1793, formed the de facto executive government of France during the Reign of Terror ( 1793 1794) of the French Revolution. Under war conditions on February 8February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 326 days remaining, 327 in leap years. Events 421 Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire 1587 Mary, Queen of Scots is executed. 1622 King James I of Englan, 1794, took part in the attack on Robespierre on the 9th ThermidorThermidor was the eleventh month in the French Revolutionary Calendar, which was used only in France and only for thirteen years. It was the middle month of summer (being named for heat , and started on the equivalent to July 19th or 20th in the Gregorian, but was himself brought before, the Revolutionary Tribunal on the 11th and guillotined on the 16th of November 1794.
See Comte Fleury, Carrier a Nantes, 1793-1794 (Paris, 1897); Alfred Lallié , J. B. Carrier, représentant du Cantal a la Convention 1756-1794 d'après de nouveaux documents (Paris, 1901). It should be noted that Lallié's works are inspired by strong royalist sympathies.