  EARLY FRENCH PRISONS CHAPTER I ORIGINS AND EARLY HISTORY CHAPTER II STRUGGLE WITH THE SOVEREIGN CHAPTER III VINCENNES AND THE BASTILE CHAPTER IV THE RISE OF RICHELIEU CHAPTER V THE PEOPLE AND THE BASTILE CHAPTER VI THE MAN WITH THE IRON MASK CHAPTER VII THE POWER OF THE BASTILE CHAPTER VIII THE TERROR OF POISON CHAPTER IX THE HORRORS OF THE GALLEYS CHAPTER X THE DAWN OF REVOLUTION CHAPTER XI LAST DAYS OF THE BASTILE Title: The History and Romance of Crime: Early French Prisons Le Grand and Le Petit ChÂtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons Author: Arthur George Frederick Griffiths Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Paul Clark, |
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The History and Romance of Crime.
Early French Prisons
An Incident During the Communal Revolts of the Twelfth Century
A noble being strangled in his castle by one of the men of the commune (town) in the twelfth century when the villages at the foot of the castles revolted and wrested charters from their lords, often peacefully but more frequently by bloodshed and brutal practices.
EDITION NATIONALE
Limited to one thousand registered and numbered sets.
NUMBER 307
