CARRIER, JEAN BAPTISTE (1756-1794), French Rev olutionist and Terrorist, was born at Yolet, in Upper Auvergne. In 1792 he was chosen deputy to the National Convention. He was already known as one of the influential members of the Cor deliers club and of that of the Jacobins. At the close of 1792 he was sent by the Convention to Flanders as their commissioner. In the following year he took part in establishing the Revolu tionary Tribunal. After a mission into Normandy, Carrier was sent, early in Oct. 1793, to Nantes, under orders from the Con vention to suppress the revolt which was raging there. He estab lished a revolutionary tribunal, and formed a body of desperate men, called the Legion of Marat, to destroy in the swiftest way the masses of prisoners heaped in the jails. The form of trial was soon discontinued, and the victims were sent to the guillotine 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 Loire. These, the Noyades of Nantes, made Carrier notorious. He was recalled by the Committee of Public Safety on Feb. 8, 1794, took part in the attack on Robes pierre on the 9th Thermidor, but was himself brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal on the nth and guillotined on Nov. 16, See Comte Fleury, Carrier a Nantes (1897, 2nd ed. 1901) ; Lallie, J. B. Carrier . . . 1756-1794, etc. (19o1) ; G. Martin, Carrier et sa mission a Nantes (1924) . See also, Correspondence of Jean-Baptiste Carrier . during his mission in Brittany, 1793-1794, collected and translated by E. H. Carrier (192o) .