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    In French history, bagne is a term used to describe a penal establishment where forced labor was enforced. These establishments were typically in penal...
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    Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. It is the location of the infamous prison, the bagne of Toulon, in which the protagonist Jean Valjean spends nineteen years in...
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    infrastructure of early Rochefort from 1766 was its bagne, a high-security penal colony involving hard labour. Bagnes were then common fixtures in military harbors...
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  • Plague. 1738 – Porte du Musée de la Marine (Toulon) [fr] (gate) built. 1744 – February: Battle of Toulon fought near city. 1748 – Bagne of Toulon (prison)...
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    Musee du Louvre. Paris: Musée du Louvre/Hazan. p. 46. ISBN 9782754106207. Évelyne Lepage (2013). Formes & façons dans le patrimoine du val de Bagnes (in...
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    Leborgne, Editions Parigramme, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84096-189-X Benjamin Appert, Bagnes, prisons et criminels, p. 205, Guilbert, 1836, vol. I Saint-Germain-des-Prés...
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  • Recreation of the 1993 performance, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris. 2012 : " Under the gun ", Musée Maillol, Paris, France. 2010 : " Haut...
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    the ropemaking was provided by convicts from the adjoining prison, the Bagne de Toulon, who walked in an enormous treadmill. A triumphal gate (now the...
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    ISBN 978-2-7564-0574-2. H-France Review, Dominique Kalifa, Biribi: les bagnes coloniaux de l'armée française, review by Richard S. Fogarty. [3] Martin...
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    agents began cracking down on dissidents and sending most of them to the bagne de Cayennes (Devil's Island Penal System) in French Guiana. Clemenceau worked...
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    An Invitation to Disappear | Giétro 2018 – 1818, Dam of Mauvoisin, Musée de Bagnes, Le Châble, Switzerland, 2018 An Invitation to Disappear, Kunsthalle...
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  • the living conditions of marginalized populations: Les bagnes : Rochefort (1830), Les bagnes : histoires, types, mœurs, mystères (1845), Les brigands...
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    Entremont was retained and not split into the districts of Sembrancher and Bagnes. On the other hand, each dizain had one vote in the Diet, as did the bishop...
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  • 2010: Vive le son ! 2012: Une histoire aussi vieille que moi 1983: Lettres du bagne 1984: L'embranchement 1985: Le Monde désert 1969: Bartleby by Jean-Pierre...
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  • 251148°N 6.946231°E / 46.251148; 6.946231 6856 Château avec musée et archives du Vieux-Monthey Rue du Château 7 562.010 122.450 46°15′09″N 6°56′46″E / 46...
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    Instituto Mora, Mexico, 2008. Biribi. Les bagnes coloniaux de l'armée française, Paris, Perrin, 2009. La Civilisation du journal. Histoire culturelle et littéraire...
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    buildings 450 meters long, separated by a street, housed the workshops and the bagne (penal establishment for forced labor), the one closest to the port, and...
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    Cambridge University Press: 548–49. Forsdick, C. (2018). Postcolonializing the bagne. French Studies, 72(2), 237–255. Brower, Benjamin C. A desert named peace:...
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    the 100-gun Hercule on display at the Musée national de la Marine. Scale model of Tage on display at the Musée National de la Marine in Paris Loss of...
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    casse-noisette (1845) Paul Féval : Contes de nos pères (1845) Maurice Alhoy : Les Bagnes (1845) Maurice Alhoy et Louis Lurine : Les Prisons de Paris (1846) Octave...
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    deportation to Îles du Salut, and then as a transport for those sent to the Bagne of Cayenne. She then took part in the Crimean War in the Black Sea in 1854...
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  • (approximate date). 1749 - Le Réduit (fort) built near Port Louis at Moka. 1772 - Bagne Prison built. 1774 - Line Barracks or Casernes Centrales is inaugurated...
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