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5-522: Saint-Lazare Prison was a prison in the 10th arrondissement of Paris , France . It existed from 1793 until 1935 and was housed in a former motherhouse of the Vincentians . in the 12th century a leprosarium was founded on the road from Paris to Saint-Denis at the boundary of a marshy area near River Seine . It was ceded on 7 January 1632 to St. Vincent de Paul and the Congregation of
10-548: The Revolution . It was largely demolished in 1935, with the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris installing itself in the remaining buildings, where they remained until recently. Only the prison infirmary and chapel (built by Louis-Pierre Baltard in 1834) remain of the prison, with the latter to be seen in the square Alban-Satragne (107, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis) in the 10th arrondissement . The surviving remains of
15-508: The Mission he had founded. At this stage, in addition to being a headquarter for the congregation, it became a place of detention for people who had become an embarrassment to their families: an enclosure for " black sheep " who had brought disgrace to their relatives. The prison was situated in the enclos Saint-Lazare , the largest enclosure in Paris until the end of the 18th century, between
20-788: The Rue de Paradis to its south, the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis to its east, the Boulevard de la Chapelle to its north and the Rue Sainte-Anne to its west (today the Rue du Faubourg Poissonnière). Its site is now marked by the Church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul . The building was converted to prison at the time of the Reign of Terror in 1793, then a women's prison in the early 19th century, its land having been seized and re-allotted little by little since
25-582: The Saint-Lazare prison were inscribed on the supplementary inventory of historic monuments in November 2005. The Musée de la Révolution française conserves a portrait of Joseph Cange , a prison officer at the Saint-Lazare prison during the reign of Terror , who gave financial help to the family of a prisoner at the risk of his life and that was honoured nationally after the fall of Robespierre . A song by Aristide Bruant entitled " À Saint-Lazare "
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