The Project Gutenberg eBook, The History and Romance of Crime: Early French Prisons, by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
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The History and Romance of Crime.
Early French Prisons
An Incident During the Communal Revolts of the Twelfth Century
A noble being strangled in his castle by one of the men of the commune (town) in the twelfth century when the villages at the foot of the castles revolted and wrested charters from their lords, often peacefully but more frequently by bloodshed and brutal practices.
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