ve by
Daunou, who was imprisoned in turn in La Force, in the Madelonettes, in
the English Benedictine establishment, in the Hotel des Fermes, and in
Port-Libre.)--On prison management cf., for the provinces, "Tableaux
des Prisons de Toulouse," by Pescayre; "Un Sejour en France," and "Les
Horreurs des Prisons d'Arras," for Arras and Amiens; Alexandrines des
Echerolles, "Une Famille noble sous la Terreur," for Lyons; the trial
of Carrier for Nantes; for Paris, "Histoire des Prisons" by Nougaret, 4
vols., and the "Memoires sur les Prisons," 2 vols.]

[Footnote 4117: Testimony of Representative Blanqui, imprisoned at La
Force, and of Representative Beaulieu, imprisoned in the Luxembourg and
at the Madelonettes.--Beaulieu, "Essais," V., 290: "The conciergerie
was still full of wretches held for robbery and assassination,
poverty-stricken and repulsive.--It was with these that counts,
marquises, voluptuous financiers, elegant dandies, and more than one
wretched philosopher, were shut up, pell-mell, in the foulest cells,
waiting until the guillotine could make room in the chambers filled
with camp-bedsteads. They were generally put with those on the straw, on
entering, where they sometimes remained a fortnight... It was necessary
to drink brandy with these persons; in the evening, after having dropped
their excrement near their straw, they went to sleep in their filth....
I passed those three nights half-sitting, half-stretched out on a
bench, one leg on the ground and leaning against the wall."--Wallon, "La
Terreur," II., 87. (Report of Grandpre on the Conciergerie, March 17,
1793. "Twenty-six men collected into one room, sleeping on twenty-one
mattresses, breathing the foulest air and covered with half-rotten
rags." In another room forty-five men and ten straw-beds; in a third,
thirty-nine poor creatures dying in nine bunks; in three other rooms,
eighty miserable creatures on sixteen mattresses filled with vermin,
and, as to the women, fifty-four having nine mattresses and standing
up alternately.--The worst prisons in Paris were the Conciergerie, La
Force, Le Plessis and Bicetre.--"Tableau des Prisons de Toulouse,"
p. 316. "Dying with hunger, we contended with the dogs for the bones
intended for them, and we pounded them up to make soup with."]

[Footnote 4118: "Recueil de Pieces, etc.," i., p.3. (Letter of Frederic
Burger, Prairial 2, year II.)]

[Footnote 4119: Alfred Lallier, "Les Noyades de Nantes," p.
90.--Campardon