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Prison de l'Abbaye

Buildings and structures demolished in 1854Defunct prisons in ParisFrench Revolution
Prison de l'Abbaye St. Germain, 1831
Prison de l'Abbaye St. Germain, 1831

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, flanked by two turrets (or more exactly, échauguettes). It was the scene of one of the bloodiest episodes of the French Revolution.Madame Roland, wife of the Girondin Minister of the Interior Jean-Marie Roland, was interned here on her first arrest in 1793 before being transferred to Sainte Pélagie.

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Prison de l'Abbaye
Rue du Four, Paris Quartier de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris)

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Rue du Four
75006 Paris, Quartier de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris)
Ile-de-France, France
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