- The worst prisons in
Paris were the Conciergerie, La Force, Le Plessis and Bic?tre. -
"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."
[18] "Recueil de Pi?ces, etc.," i., p.3. (Letter of Fr?d?ric Burger,
Prairial 2, year II.)
[19] Alfred Lallier, "Les Noyades de Nantes," p. 90. - Campardon,
"Histoire de Tribunal R?volutionnaire de Paris," (trial of Carrier),
II., 55. (Deposition of the health-officer, Thomas.) " I saw perish
in the revolutionary hospital (at Nantes) seventy-five prisoners in
two days. None but rotten mattresses were found there, on each of
which the epidemic had consumed more than fifty persons. At the
Entrepot, I found a number of corpses scattered about here and there.
I saw children, still breathing, drowned in tubs full of human
excrement."
[20] Narrative of the sufferings of unsworn priests, deported in 1794,
in the roadstead of Aix, passim.
[21] "Histoire des Prisons," I., 10. "Go and visit," says a
contemporary, (at the Conciergerie), the dungeons called 'the great
C?sar,' 'Bombie,' 'St. Vincent.
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