The Brest Prison (French - bagne de Brest) was a 254m long prison in Brest, France. It was built between 1749 and 1751 by Antoine Choquet de Lindu, dominating...

Brest, formerly Brest-Litovsk and Brest-on-the-Bug, is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the Polish town of Terespol, where the Bug...

vagrancy, Antoine claimed to be without parents and an escapee from the Brest Prison, where he claimed to have served a 20-year penal labor sentence. His...

louchébem seems to have been created not by butchers, but by inmates at Brest Prison, with records dating back to 1821. Edmund Clerihew Bentley used the language...

required to work in the Navy's ports and arsenals. The Toulon bagne, the Brest bagne and the Rochefort bagne were created for this purpose. The Galères...

defeated. 1702 – St. Louis Church, Brest [fr] consecrated. 1749 – Saint-Sauveur Church built in Recouvrance. 1751 – Brest Prison built. 1752 – Académie de Marine...

January 2005, while making a film about prison life in Brest, Dalle met Guenaël Meziani, serving a 12-year prison sentence for assaulting and raping his...

The Château de Brest (Breton: Kastell Brest) is a castle in Brest, Finistère, France. The oldest monument in the town, it is located at the mouth of the...

Paris for "forgery in authentic and public writing". He arrived at the Brest Prison in July 1803, where he remained under no. 3052 until his release on 25...

The Brześć Ghetto or the Ghetto in Brest on the Bug, also: Brześć nad Bugiem Ghetto, and Brest-Litovsk Ghetto (Polish: getto w Brześciu nad Bugiem, Yiddish:...

second theory is from the "Bagne de Brest" (Brest's Prison between 1749 and 1848). When a prisoner escapes, the prison's cannons were fired to alarm the area...

first batch of prisoners left the Breton port of Brest for the Îles du Salut on 31 March 1852. The prison at St-Laurent-du-Maroni was established on the...

Jesuits in France in 1762, he became a parish priest and was chaplain of Brest Prison from 1762 to 1766. Bonnecamps was a missionary in Saint Pierre and Miquelon...

expansion of the port of Brest, producing "works of all kinds" – barracks, hospitals, magazines, dry docks, shipyards, theatres, prisons, sail and rope factories...

The Brest trials (Polish: Proces brzeski) were among the most famous trials conducted under the Second Polish Republic. Lasting from 26 October 1931 to...

sentenced to 5 years in prison, and his family was deported to Kazakhstan. Until 1941, he was under investigation in the Brest prison, from where he was released...

Midnight Run is a 1988 American action comedy film directed by Martin Brest, written by George Gallo, and starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin....

shot but floated in the water unconscious, supported by Brest. As a prison launch picked up Brest, he let go of Boarman, who sank and was never recovered...

coming from Oslo, Norway. The other suspected aircraft would have landed in Brest on March 31, 2002. It is investigated by the Canadian authorities, as it...

works at Brest, decided to develop Île de Morts by adding powder magazines. The rock-breaking works done by convicts from the Brest prison allowed him...

Battle of Brześć Litewski (also known as the Siege of Brześć, Battle of Brest-Litovsk or simply Battle of Brześć) was a World War II battle involving...

in those days everyone believed the Fédérés from Marseille, Avignon and Brest were involved in the killing. About 800–1000 were staying in barrack, but...

Synagogue or the Great Synagogue is a former Orthodox Jewish synagogue tin Brest (known in Yiddish: Brisk), Belarus. Completed in c. 1862, it was used as...

by French privateers. He was imprisoned in Brest for six days before being transferred to another prison on the French coast. He was later exchanged...

vagabond and prostitute across Europe. Querelle de Brest (1947) is set in the port town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder...

District court in Brest. At trial, the prosecutor, Elena Tikhanovich, requested that Pernikaŭ be sentenced to two years in prison based on three alleged...

directed by Martin Brest and starring George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg (in his final film role) and Charles Hallahan. It was Brest's first commercial...

metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus', by the terms of the Union of Brest, the Ruthenian church was transferred from the ecclesiastical jurisdiction...

romantic crime comedy film written, co-produced and directed by Martin Brest and starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha, Al Pacino, Christopher...

information and maps guiding it to the border of the West Bank. Shikma Prison was among Hamas's targets, but the group that headed there with the aim...