The Feudal System--Early prisons--Classes of inmates--Alike in aspect, similar in discipline--Variety of penalties--Chief prisons of Paris in the Middle Ages--Great and Little Châtelets--History and inmates--The Conciergerie still standing--For-l'Évêque, the Bishop's prison--The Temple, prison of the Knights Templars--Bicêtre--Notable prisoners--Salomon de Caus, steam inventor--St. Pélagie--St. Lazare. Let us consider the prisons of Old France in the order of their antiquity, their size and their general importance in French history.…
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