This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...they unfortunately failed to accomplish their good intentions. Through the interest, however, made by one of the judges, also an acquaintance of BrummeH's, he was afterwards permitted to share during the day the apartment of a Monsieur Godefroi, the responsible editor of the Ami de la Verite, (a legitimist ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...they unfortunately failed to accomplish their good intentions. Through the interest, however, made by one of the judges, also an acquaintance of BrummeH's, he was afterwards permitted to share during the day the apartment of a Monsieur Godefroi, the responsible editor of the Ami de la Verite, (a legitimist paper published in the town), who was confined for a political offence. At night he slept in a narrow passage (couloir) communicating with another part of the prison, which was now rarely used. It is true that this passage was only a few inches wider than his bed, but it was a little paradise compared with the common room; here, however, he remained, until his friend the judge exercised his influence, obliged to associate not only with the debtors, but with felons, who before conviction are permitted to purchase the indulgences of " the Pistole: " in this part of the prison a bed, the use of the debtors' court, and other advantages, are obtained upon paying certain fees, amounting, in former days, to a pistole--thence the term. This system of mixing the debtors with criminals who may be, and frequently are, condemned to the galleys for life, does not speak well for the discipline of French prisons. In other.respects, the jail seemed to be in good order, and Monsieur Godefroi, who was kind enough to accompany me, when I went there in the spring of 1843, to see BrummeH's room, said that great ameliorations had taken place within the last four years. The cells, however, in which refractory prisoners are confined at the mandate of the governor, appeared damp, dark, and dreadfully small: in one of them, and on a little loose straw thrown upon the ground, we saw one of these unfortunates lying. In these dungeons, the prisoners condemned to death are...
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