-
there were the port
bagnes (or
maritime bagnes). Not all
convicts in the
penal system were
sentenced to
forced labor. The word "
bagne"
comes from the Italian...
- 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...
- muni****lities of
Bagnes and Vollèges
merged to form the new muni****lity of Val de
Bagnes. With an area of 282 km2 (108.88 sq mi),
Bagnes used to be the...
- The
penal colony of
Cayenne (French:
Bagne de Cayenne),
commonly known as Devil's
Island (Île du Diable), was a
French penal colony that
operated for...
-
Persicula bagne is a
species of very
small sea snail, a
marine gastropod mollusk or
micromollusk in the
family Cystiscidae. Faber, M.J. (2006). "The genera...
- Val de
Bagnes is a muni****lity in the
district of
Entremont in the
canton of
Valais in Switzerland. It is
named after the
eponymous Val de
Bagnes. On 1...
- prisoners. It
crushes them, that's all, and the
pieces go
where they may. (Au
bagne, 1923) And the
article continued: "I was
taken to
these places. I was taken...
- 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...
-
prisoners from the
Bagne of
Toulon in one of his
early stories, Le
Dernier Jour d'un Con****é. He went to
Toulon to
visit the
Bagne in 1839 and took extensive...
-
formed from the
confluence of the
Dranse d'Entremont and the
Dranse de
Bagnes at the
village of Sembrancher.
Further upriver the
Dranse d'Entremont splits...
