In France at the time of their revolution were two O Sullivan brothers, Charles and John. Both were the grandsons of an Irish royalist who had settled at Nantes.
Charles, according to Irish Families, "saved his brother, John, an ardent revolutionary, from the militant Vendeans. Later, John, a former fencing master, became notorious. With the cruel pro-consul, Carrier, he organized the sinking of barges filled with priests and other citizens - a diabolical way of bypassing the guillotine or the expense of gunfire. John even betrayed his own royalist brother, Charles, who was guillotined. When the inevitable revulsion against the horror set in, John O Sullivan came before the Revolutionary Tribunal, which found him guilty of many atrocities and murders, but set him free ‘because he did not act with criminal revolutiona
John is evidently Jean Baptiste O Sullivan who "conscientiously inflicted his own reign of terror on Nantes."
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