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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...