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    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...
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    port bagnes (except galley slaves selected for rowing) and were required to work in the Navy's ports and arsenals. The Toulon bagne, the Brest bagne and...
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    The Bagne of Toulon was a notorious bagne, or penal establishment in Toulon, France, made famous as the place of imprisonment of the fictional Jean Valjean...
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    The Brest Arsenal (French: arsenal de Brest) is a collection of naval and military buildings located on the banks of the river Penfeld, in Brest, France...
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    Landerneau (redirect from Pont de Rohan)
    noise in Landerneau" text said. The second theory is from the "Bagne de Brest" (Brest's Prison between 1749 and 1848). When a prisoner escapes, the prison's...
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    Magnanime 74 (launched 17 August 1803 at Rochefort) – became floating prison Bagne No 1 in 1816 and struck 1820. Suffren 74 (launched 17 September 1803 at...
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    2021. Bibliography C'était le bagne, L'Express Magazine Godefroy, Marion F., Bagnards; Chêne, 2002 Media related to Bagne de Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni at Wikimedia...
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    continued until 1873, when the last bagne in France (as opposed to the bagnes relocated to French Guiana), the bagne of Toulon, closed definitively. In...
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  • académie de marine. He published two works: 1757 : La Description des trois formes du port de Brest 1759 : La Description du bagne de l'arsenal de Brest...
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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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  • Joannic-Seta, Frédérique (2015). Le bagne de Brest: Naissance d'une institution carcérale au siècle des Lumières [The prison of Brest: Birth of a prison institution...
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    2002) Her (Elle) 1955/1989 The Screens (Les Paravents) 1956-61/1961/1964 Le Bagne [French edition only] (1994) Un chant d'amour (1950) Haute Surveillance...
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    Eugène François Vidocq (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    forthwith to the Bicêtre, and there, making one chain, to be sent on to the Bagne at Brest. It is unnecessary to say that I was relying on escaping en route. — Eugène...
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    for the first time. But his transport career will rebound again since the Bagne of Toulon has become congested, and the French Government wanted to increase...
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    2019. "Départ de Hannibal Mejbri". asmonaco.com/ (in French). AS Monaco FC. 11 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019. "Irvin Cardona à Brest". asmonaco.com/...
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    incarcerated within the "bagne", or penal colonies. Within the Southern Hemisphere, it worked in New Caledonia (which had a bagne too until the end of the...
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    Déportés et forçats de la Commune: De Belleville à Nouméa. Ouest éditions. ISBN 9782908261806. Mémoires d'un communard : Des barricades au bagne / Jean Allemane...
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  • Department of Law, Economy and Management is located in Les Anciens Ateliers du Bagne (The Old Penal Colony Workshops) in Nouville. In 1994, a residence was built...
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  • Souvenirs d'un évadé de Nouméa (in French). Éditions Charpentier. Barbançon, Louis-José (2003). L'archipel des forçats, histoire du bagne de Nouvelle-Calédonie...
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    Nantes to Brest and gave him his first drawing lessons. He later studied at the "Académie de Peinture et de Dessin" (Académie Charioux) in Brest. Afterwards...
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    between 14 prisons, he was eventually detained during March 1941 in the bagne of Maison Carrée, near Alger. Freed on 5 February 1943, three months after...
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