MAISON BEAULIEUAB ÉDITIONS · CUISINE & LETTRESA monumental fusion of archival chronicle and narrative power published in eight volumes between 1844 and 1845 by Alboize du Pujol and Auguste Maquet—the illustrious collaborator of Alexandre Dumas—The Prisons of Europe unbars the gates of fortresses, state dungeons, and penal colonies of the Ancien Régime: Bicêtre, the Conciergerie, the Spielberg, the Piombi of Venice, the Tower of London, and the Château d’If.
Volume I · Bicêtre, Saint-Lazare & Les Madelonnettes
Volume II · The Conciergerie, Sainte-Pélagie & La Force
Volume III · The Temple, the Abbaye & Mont-Saint-Michel
Volume IV · Ham, Pierre-Encise, Loches & the Château d'If
Volume V · Pinerolo, Fenestrelle & the Tower of London
Volume VI · Castel Sant'Angelo & the Inquisition
Volume VII · The Spielberg, Shlisselburg & Siberia
Volume VIII · The Seven Towers & the Piombi of Venice
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