The Bagne of Toulon was a notorious bagne, or penal establishment in Toulon, France, made famous as the place of imprisonment of the fictional Jean Valjean...
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there were the port bagnes (or maritime bagnes). Not all convicts in the penal system were sentenced to forced labor. The word "bagne" comes from the Italian...
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journey lasted 14 days during which all the prisoners condemned to the Bagne— killers and thieves —- were transported and some of them killed other freed...
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The penal colony of Cayenne (French: Bagne de Cayenne), commonly known as Devil's Island (Île du Diable), was a French penal colony that operated for...
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municipalities of Bagnes and Vollèges merged to form the new municipality of Val de Bagnes. With an area of 282 km2 (108.88 sq mi), Bagnes used to be the...
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Persicula bagne is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae. Faber, M.J. (2006). "The genera...
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prisoners. It crushes them, that's all, and the pieces go where they may. (Au bagne, 1923) And the article continued: "I was taken to these places. I was taken...
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Parisien , 6 October 1925 Gérard de Villiers, Papillon épinglé – La vérité sur le bagne et sur le Venezuela, Presses de la cité, 1970, ASIN B000EHVA62...
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prisoners from the Bagne of Toulon in one of his early stories, Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné. He went to Toulon to visit the Bagne in 1839 and took extensive...
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Bagne de Toulon, was closed in 1873.[citation needed] The penal colony in French Guiana, which was not shut down until 1953, was also called a bagne,...
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