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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Republican marriage (French: mariage républicain) was a form of execution practiced in in the city of Nantes in Revolutionary France, "which involved tying a naked man and woman together and drowning them". (Ruth Scurr, Fatal Purity: Robespierre And the French Revolution (2006) p. 305.) Most accounts indicate that the victims were drowned in the Loire River, although a few sources describe an alternative means of execution in which the bound couple is run through with a sword, either before, or instead of drowning.

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