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    Sainte-Pélagie was a prison in Paris, in active use from 1790 to 1899. It was founded earlier than that, however, in 1662, as place for "repentant girls"...
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    Coton-Pélagie (born 1988), French footballer Pélagie, a Canadian musical first produced in 2004 Pelagie Islands Sainte-Pélagie Prison, a prison in Paris...
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    interned here on her first arrest in 1793 before being transferred to Sainte Pélagie. It occupied part of the current site of Boulevard Saint-Germain in...
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    of other prisons transferred to it, such as the public daughters of the Petite Force (1828) and the prisoners at the Prison Sainte-Pélagie (1831). Finally...
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    and on May 1, 1845, she founded the Hospice Sainte-Pélagie (also known as the Maternité de Sainte-Pélagie), operating out of the attic of a house on Saint-Simon...
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    Justice in Lyon Chapel of the prison Sainte-Pélagie, Paris. Hospital and chapel of the prison Saint-Lazare, Paris (1834) Prison Saint-Joseph, Perrache Lyon...
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    Sade was arrested at his publisher's office and detained in the Sainte-Pélagie Prison. The stocks of The New Justine and Juliette were seized and the...
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    concluded on the night of 6–7 September; four were not visited (Sainte-Pélagie Prison, Prison Saint-Lazare, Tour du Temple and palais Bourbon). About 700...
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    as those in "Chouans en déroute" (1883) and "Madame Roland à la prison Sainte-Pélagie" (1886). His paintings became highly appreciated by the public....
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    of democracy, Carrel faced serious dangers. Once, he was sent to Sainte-Pélagie Prison, and he appeared several times before the Tribunal of Paris to answer...
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    in reply to Jules Janin, brought him six months' sojourn in the Sainte-Pélagie prison, in the cell just vacated by Lamennais. In 1846 he edited the collected...
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    Boyer-Fonfrède which led to his imprisonment for a month in the prison Sainte-Pélagie. However, he is best known for his Conversion d'un romantique (1830)...
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    banned. On 25 April 1865, he was sentenced to 18 months at the Sainte-Pélagie Prison in Paris. The second edition of "Dialogues" was issued in 1868 under...
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    July Revolution, and during the unrest in 1831 was jailed in the Sainte-Pélagie Prison. He has a cultivated variety of pear called the Docteur Jules Guyot...
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    as his comédians. Among the 13 actors (actresses were jailed at Sainte-Pélagie Prison) of the Théâtre Français incarcerated at the Madelonnettes Convent...
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    Empire which eventually got him arrested and imprisoned in the Sainte-Pélagie Prison. Clément was released after the after the Republican protests and...
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    Committee of Public Safety. Mlle Lange was at first imprisoned in the prison de Sainte-Pélagie until, after a few months in captivity, she managed to arrange...
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    conspiracy, Marie Thérèse was imprisoned with her family in the Sainte-Pélagie Prison. Her small daughters were left in the care of their governess. She...
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    members of the family Duplay were arrested and at four taken to Sainte-Pélagie Prison. "Rodama: a blog of 18th century & Revolutionary French trivia:...
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    Debtors' Prison Relief Act of 1792 was a United States federal statute enacted into law by the first President of the United States George Washington on...
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    press-related crimes. Hébert was condemned to serve a 12-year sentence in Sainte-Pélagie Prison, where, according to journalist Taxile Delord, his culinary talents...
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    until the end of the siege. He returned to Sainte- Pelagie 5 September 1832 and was finally released from prison Feb. 5, 1833. Resulting from the bitterness...
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    captured in Versailles prison. Portrait of Charles Ernest Lullier, Communard. Portrait of Louise Tautin in Versailles prison. As early as the 19th century...
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    Léon Gambetta, and was sentenced to eight months in prison, reduced to three, at Sainte Pélagie, and had to pay a fine of 1,200 francs. After serving...
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    he spent 22 years—more than a quarter of his life—in the Paris Sainte-Pélagie Prison. Swan emigrated from Fife, Scotland to Massachusetts in 1765. He...
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    Roucher had translated Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. His letters from prison were edited by his son-in-law under the title of Consolations de ma captivité...
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    banned. On 25 April 1865, he was sentenced to 18 months at the Sainte-Pélagie Prison in Paris. The second edition of the Dialogues was issued in 1868...
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    the following day at his mother's house and held in detention at Sainte-Pélagie prison until 15 June 1831, when he had his trial. Galois's defense lawyer...
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    were arrested and imprisoned, her father in Carmes Prison and her mother in Sainte-Pélagie Prison. Sister Camille remained free, fled and lived through...
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    It is unlikely he participated in the September Massacre as the Sainte-Pélagie Prison in his section was not visited at all. The next evening he was present...
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