  PRISON LIFE DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. WRITTEN IN 1801, THE YEAR IX. OF THE REPUBLIC. EVENTS OF THE 21st OF JULY, 1794. NARRATIVE OF AN EYE-WITNESS OF THE AFFAIR OF JULY 22, 1794. LETTER FROM MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE DURAS, NEe NOAILLES, TO MONSIEUR GRELET. EXTRACT FROM THE 'MEMORIAL EUROPEEN,' APRIL 24, 1809. Title: Prison Journals During the French Revolution Author: Louise Henriette Charlotte Philippine (de Noailles) de Durfort, duchesse de Duras Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 E-text prepared by Dianna Adair, readbueno, |
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PRISON JOURNALS
DURING
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
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| Prison Life during the French Revolution | 7 |
| Addenda | 139 |
| Madame Latour's Memoir | 159 |
| Events of the 21st of July, 1794 | 199 |
| Narrative of an Eye-witness of the Affair | |
| of July 22, 1794 | 209 |
| Letter from Madame la Duchesse de Duras, | |
| nÉe Noailles, to Monsieur Grelet | 227 |
| Extract from the 'MÉmorial EuropÉen,' | |
| April 24, 1809 | 229 |
I was put under arrest, together with my father and mother, on August 23, 1793, at our chÂteau of Mouchy-le-ChÂtel, in the Department of the Oise. I was taken to the prison at Saint-FranÇois À Beauvais, in the old convent, on the 6th of October of the same year and to that at Chantilly on the 20th of the same month. There I remained until the 5th of April, 1794, when I was transferred to Paris, to the CollÈge du Plessis, from which I was liberated on the 19th of the following October.