Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 46750-h.htm or 46750-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46750/46750-h/46750-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46750/46750-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/prisonjournalsdu00dura [Illustration: Frontispiece] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRISON LIFE DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. WRITTEN IN 1801, THE YEAR IX. OF THE REPUBLIC. The period of my confinement in different prisons during the Reign of Terror was so harassing that the idea of writing out its details did not then occur to me; but when I had the consolation of seeing my son once more, he was desirous of learning all about it. I feared that I should be overcome by my feelings if I tried to relate the details to him, and consequently determined to write the following memoirs.