- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
Bagne de Toulon, was
closed in 1873.[citation needed] The
penal colony in
French Guiana,
which was not shut down
until 1953, was also
called a
bagne,...
- 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...
-
journey lasted 14 days
during which all the
prisoners condemned to the
Bagne—
killers and
thieves —- were
transported and some of them
killed other freed...
-
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...
