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The prison of Sainte Pélagie, Paris, in July 1899 during its demolition
Lithograph by A. Bénard, 1899, signed in the plate lower left, located lower right.
Epitaph “La Pensée libre” by Eugène Choucary, addressed to M Georges Desplas, municipal councilor for the Jardin-des-Plantes district.
A key is represented as a "remark", at the bottom left.
Subject: 22.5 x 28.6 cm 8.85 x 11.26 inches
Sheet: 31.6 x 45 cm 12.44 x 17.71 inches
It was in this prison of Saint Pélagie that Gustave Courbet was kept in detention after the Paris Commune. (Alexandre Dumas made a sojourn also)
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