For-l'Évêque

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48°51′29″N 2°20′38″E / 48.858°N 2.344°E / 48.858; 2.344

The instruments of torture at For-l’Évêque.

The For-l’Évêque was a prison in Paris. It was in operation from 1674 until 1780, and was demolished at the start of the 19th century.

History

Mademoiselle Clairon led to the For-l’Évêque.

Sources

Jules Édouard Alboise du Pujol, Auguste Maquet, Les Prisons de l’Europe, t. 1, Paris, Administration de librairie, 1850.
Gaston Maugras, Les Comédiens hors la loi, Calmann Lévy, Paris, Librairie Nouvelle, 1887.

External links

(in French) Frantz Funck-Brentano, "La Bastille des Comédiens : Le For l’Evêque" in Bulletin de la société d’histoire du théâtre, 1902, n°3-4, p. 3-94

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