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PRISON JOURNALS DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

BY

THE DUCHESSE DE DURAS

NÉE NOAILLES

Translated by Mrs. M. Carey

NEW YORK

DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

1892

Copyright, 1891,

By Dodd, Mead and Company.

All rights reserved.

University Press:

John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

CONTENTS.

Page.

Prison Life during the French Revolution 7

Addenda 139

Madame Latour's Memoir 159

Events of the 21st of July, 1794 199

Narrative of an Eye-witness of the Affair

of July 22, 1794 209

Letter from Madame la Duchesse de Duras,

née Noailles, to Monsieur Grelet 227

Extract from the 'Mémorial Européen,'

April 24, 1809 229

PRISON LIFE DURING THE

FRENCH REVOLUTION.

I was put under arrest, together with my father and mother, on August 23, 1793, at our château of Mouchy-le-Châtel, in the Department of the Oise. I was taken to the prison at Saint-François à Beauvais, in the old convent, on the 6th of October of the same year and to that at Chantilly on the 20th of the same month. There I remained until the 5th of April, 1794, when I was transferred to Paris, to the Collège du Plessis, from which I was liberated on the 19th of the following October.