Le massacre d'Avranches est la mise à mort par fusillade de 800 prisonniers vendéens par les troupes républicaines, les et , à Avranches lors de la guerre de Vendée.
The Avranches massacre took place on 21 November 1793 in the context of the savage "Vendée" civil war that broke out in the west of France between 1793 and 1796, during the French Revolution. It involved the killing by firing squad at Avranches of approximately 800 counter-revolutionary prisoners by Republican troops.
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