Carmelite Prison, Paris

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Carmelite Prison, Paris was a former Parisian convent converted into a revolutionary-era prison notorious for holding political detainees during the French Revolution.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf former convent
former prison
historical building
alsoKnownAs Carmes Prison
Couvent des Carmes
associatedWith Revolutionary Tribunal
surface form: French revolutionary tribunals

persecution of non-juring priests
commemoratedAs site of the Martyrs of September 1792
commemoratedBy Catholic Church worldwide
surface form: Catholic Church
convertedTo prison
country France
dateOfEvent 2 September 1792
3 September 1792
eraOfUseAsPrison late 18th century
event September Massacres
heritage site of martyrdom of priests
historicalPeriod French Revolutionary period
languageOfName French
locatedIn 6th arrondissement of Paris
Paris
Rue de Vaugirard NERFINISHED
Île-de-France region
surface form: Île-de-France
notableFor September Massacres
surface form: September Massacres of 1792

holding political detainees
notablePrisonerType Catholic clergy
nobility
political opponents of the Revolution
originalFunction Carmelite convent
partOf network of Paris revolutionary prisons
perpetratorsType revolutionary mobs
sans-culottes
politicalContext Reign of Terror
anti-clerical violence
religiousOrder Carmelite Order
surface form: Carmelites
status no longer used as a prison
usedDuring French Revolution
usedFor detention of clergy
detention of political suspects
victimsCountApproximate about 115 to 120 prisoners killed
victimsType political prisoners
refractory priests
religious prisoners

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Alexandre de Beauharnais detainedAt Carmelite Prison, Paris