The Prison de l’Abbaye was a Paris prison in use from 1522 to 1854. The final building was built by Christophe Gamard in 1631 and made up of three floors...

opposed by the staff of the prison, who allowed many prisoners to escape, one example being Pauline de Tourzel. The Prison de l'Abbaye contained a number of...

Antoinette, she was detained in prison from 27 August onward. Because of this, she was still in the prison de l'Abbaye during the September Massacres,...

Favras and his wife were arrested the next day and imprisoned in the Prison de l'Abbaye. Terrified of the consequences of the arrest, the Count of Provence...

president of the improvised tribunal at the Prison de l’Abbaye, he released the marquis Charles François de Virot de Sombreuil, who had been saved by his daughter...

his son, the comte de Beaujolais, were imprisoned in the prison de l'Abbaye in Paris. Later, the two were transferred to the prison of Fort Saint-Jean...

involvement in Babeuf's Conspiracy of the Equals and imprisoned at the Prison de l'Abbaye, but shortly made his escape, going first to Switzerland and from...

being briefly imprisoned during the French Revolution in 1793 at Prison de l'Abbaye, he returned to the US in 1795 where he received a commission as a...

imprisoned in the Prison de l'Abbaye, where he perished in the September massacres. His relative, Louis Victor Henri, marquis de Montmorin de Saint Herem,...

liberty tree, arrested, and put in prison almost naked. At the end of August he was transported to the Prison de l'Abbaye and on 13 November to the Conciergerie...