FRENCH REVOLUTION -- CARRIER, Jean Baptiste (1756-1794). Autograph document signed ('Le Réprésentant du peuple Carrier'), [Nantes], 'le 7 frimaire' n.y. [27 November 1793], an order for the Municipality of Nantes to have two volunteers removed from the house of Citoyen Chardin, 3 lines in autograph, written below a note in a different hand reporting that Chardin has '2 soldats du Battaillon Seine et Oise, rue du Bignonn Lestard no.71', with an endorsement noting the action taken, one page (100 x 200mm), torn from a larger leaf; three letters by Conventionnels including Marie Pierre FRANCASTEL, to Carrier and Le Vasseur, reporting on military matters and 'Des souliers, des souliers ... il faut que tu nous en envoyes et le plus possible', signed also by Bourbotte; Marie Jospeh LEQUINION reporting that he has ordered that four or five hundred prisoners at Rochefort are to be shot without trial at the first sign of the enemy; and Philippe Antoine MERLIN, (signed also by Cavaignac and Gillet) to their colleagues at La Rochelle about the publication of a decree and proclamation; a letter by Josephe SANTERRE to 'Mon Frère d'armes de Vincennes', about handing over a rifle, and complaining that he is letting the wood at Vincennes be destroyed, 2 November 1790, one page, 4to; together with a letter by a member of a military commission, on the activities of the Sans Culottes in the area of Rennes, together 8½ pages, folio. Carrier, at Nantes from November - January 1793/94, was responsible for some of the worst excesses of the Terror, including the drowning of over 2000 people in the Loire. Santerre, appointed commander of the National Guard in Paris in 1792, served against the Vendéans. (6)