The History and Romance of Crime: Early French Prisons
by Arthur Griffiths
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About this eBook
- Author
- Griffiths, Arthur, 1838-1908
- Title
- Early French Prisons Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Paul Clark, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
- Subject
- Punishment -- France
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 50520
- Release Date
- November 20, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The History and Romance of Crime. Early French Prisons
- 2.INTRODUCTION
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.List of Illustrations
- 5.CHAPTER I ORIGINS AND EARLY HISTORY
- 6.CHAPTER II STRUGGLE WITH THE SOVEREIGN
- 7.CHAPTER III VINCENNES AND THE BASTILE
- 8.CHAPTER IV THE RISE OF RICHELIEU
- 9.CHAPTER V THE PEOPLE AND THE BASTILE
- 10.CHAPTER VI THE MAN WITH THE IRON MASK
- 11.CHAPTER VII THE POWER OF THE BASTILE
- 12.CHAPTER VIII THE TERROR OF POISON
- 13.CHAPTER IX THE HORRORS OF THE GALLEYS
- 14.CHAPTER X THE DAWN OF REVOLUTION
- 15.CHAPTER XI LAST DAYS OF THE BASTILE
- 16.Transcriber's Note:
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