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Aug 27, 2005 02:54

Ok. This is bugging me. I can't find La Force prison. At all. No map from the 18th or 19th century seems to have it. I have browsed dozens upon dozens of maps from 1716 to 1877 on the web. I have scruitinized my own map, which in the eighth plan by N. de Fer dating from 1705. I've found all the streets that bound it, and several old mansions that ( Read more... )

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vivelabagatelle August 27 2005, 01:42:47 UTC

How frustrating! Bear in mind that it is Hugo, so he's probably taken a fair pince of poetic license with the whole thing. Maybe a secondary source would provide enlightenment?

axmxz August 27 2005, 08:48:15 UTC

No no, you don't understand. I've searched high and low. Google, Factiva - the works. There isn't a single page out there, outside of two lines on Wikipedia about a slaughter in La Force during the Revolution and random reference to Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, dedicated to La Force. Nor are there pictures ( ... )

vivelabagatelle August 27 2005, 08:59:26 UTC

But that's madness!! How can a Huge great thing like La Force just disapeer from all records?

Having said that, the little vulture-publisher inside me is crying "So much scope for a never-been-done-before secret history!"

Good luck tracking down a member of the library staff! Maybe you could lay a trail of brownie chunks to lure them back into the building!

axmxz August 27 2005, 09:06:39 UTC

>But that's madness!! How can a Huge great thing like La Force just disapeer from all records?

I... don't know. Hell, I'll be overjoyed if you prove me wrong. Find me a photo, an account of someone who'd been there (so far the only "real life" references I've found are soem remarks on the Revolution and Vidocq's memoirs - he spent a good part of his 21 month sentence in 1809-1811 in La Force), a map that shows it exists, for fuck's sake! Because the modern map certainly doesn't, at least not the one I like to use, on http://www.hot-maps.de/europe/france/paris/homeen.html

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vivelabagatelle August 27 2005, 01:44:30 UTC

How frustrating! Bearing in mind that this is Hugo, he probably took a fair pinch of poetic licence with the whole thing. Maybe a secondary source would provide enlightenment?

vivelabagatelle August 27 2005, 01:45:19 UTC

I am a dolt! I though the last comment hadn't posted, so did it again! Cretin that I am

guede_mazaka August 28 2005, 06:56:42 UTC

*slips in* Have you tried here? Biggest historical maps linksite that I know of.

axmxz August 28 2005, 07:47:29 UTC

Thanks for the link. It doesn't really have anything useful for France. This is the site I use to look at Paris.