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The History and
Romance of
Crime
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES
TO THE PRESENT DAY
THE GROLIER SOCIETY
LONDON
Madame Roland Incarcerated in Sainte Pélagie
From the painting by E. Carpentier
One of the innocent and most distinguished victims of the French Revolution, whose memoirs were written in prison, and who will be longest remembered by the exclamation, “Oh, Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name!” uttered with her dying breath when facing the guillotine.
Modern French Prisons
BICÊTRE—ST. PÉLAGIE—ST. LAZARE
LA FORCE—THE CONCIERGERIE
LA GRANDE AND LA PETITE ROQUETTES
MAZAS—LA SANTÉ
by
MAJOR ARTHUR GRIFFITHS
Late Inspector of Prisons in Great Britain
Author of
“The Mysteries of Police and Crime,”
“Fifty Years of Public Service,” etc.
THE GROLIER SOCIETY
EDITION NATIONALE
Limited to one thousand registered and numbered sets.
NUMBER 307