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Brotherton Collection1
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prisons14
authors, french2
correctional law2
punishment2
children1
communism1
correctional institutions1
jacobins1
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France12
Arras (France)1
Paris (France)1
Soviet Union1

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Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)5
Franklin, Benjamin2
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)2
Hospice De Bicetre (Le Kremlin-Bicetre, France)2
Jay, A2
Jay, A (1770-1854)2
Jouy, Etienne De (1764-1846)2
Mirabeau, Honore Gabriel Riquetti Comte De (1749-1791)2
Romilly, Samuel2
Romilly, Sir Samuel (1757-1818)2

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The Russian enigma

Ciliga, Ante (1898-1992)

[1940]

"English version by Fernand G. Renier and Anne Cliff".

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Children in prison and other cruelties of prison life

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

[1898]

Signed at end: Oscar Wilde, France, May 27th, 1897. "Publisher's note" p[3] dated February, 1898.

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The reign of terror : a collection of authentic narratives of the horrors committed by the revolutionary government of France under Marat and Robespierre, written by eye-witnesses of the scenes; translated from the French ; interspersed with biographical notices of prominent characters and curious anecdotes illustrative of a period without its parallel in history (v.1)

Pinkerton, Percy; Ashworth, J H; Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)

1898

v. 1. My agony of thirty-eight hours / M. de Jourgniac St. Meard -- Some of the bitter fruits of the Revolution, and a feeble sketch of the days of the 2nd and 3rd September, 1792 -- Relation addresse...

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L'agonie de Saint-Lazare, sous la tyrannie de Robespierre

Dusaulchoy de Bergemont, Joseph-François-Nicolas (1761-1835); Limbourg

[1797]

Martin & Walter 2, 12462.

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Les angoisses de la mort, ou, Idées des horreurs des prisons d'Arras

Poirier, Louis-Eugène; Montgey (fl.1794-5)

[1794-5]

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La Bastille au diable

pour l'année 1790

Martin & Walter IV/2, 2664a.

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Observations d'un voyageur anglais, sur la maison de force appelée Bicêtre; suivies de réflexions sur les effets de la sévérité des peines, & sur la législation criminelle de la Grande-Bretagne

Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti comte de (1749-1791); Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790); Romilly, Sir Samuel (1757-1818)

1788

The "voyageur anglais" is Sir Samuel Romilly, who furnished material for the work. Cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 49, p. 188. "Appendice, ou, Lettre de M. Benjamin Franklin, sur le même sujet": p. 111-12...

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Les hermites en prison (v.1)

Jouy, Etienne de (1764-1846); Jay, A (1770-1854)

1823

Sequel to Jouy's works on French social life, incl. Observations sur les moeurs et les usages français au commencement du XIXe siècle.

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