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

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