Crossword-Solution: BAGNE 5 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Better to risk my life in these horrible places than to know the Bagne.” He paused, and we nearly choked with laughter, having to turn our faces away.

Selon qu'on est plus touché par tel ou tel excès de son talent, on peut l'appeler avec justice un philosophe, un apôtre, un aliéné, le consolateur des affligés ou le bourreau des esprits tranquilles, le Jérémie de bagne ou le Shakespeare de la maison des fous; toutes ces appellations seront méritées; prise isolément, aucune ne sera suffisante.

Every one indulged to an excess in every species of the most disgusting practices, profaning and scandalizing every thing holy." Vidocq's description of the Bagne at Brest, corresponds with the above:-- "The Bagne is situated in the bosom of the bay; piles of guns, and two pieces of cannon, mounted at the gates, pointed out to me the entrance, into which I was introduced, after having been examined by the two guards of the establishment.

Escaped from the Bagne at Rochefort, where he was sentenced to pass twelve years of his life, he came to Paris, and scarcely had he arrived there, where he had already practised, when, by way of getting his hand in, he committed several trifling robberies, and when, by these preliminary steps, he had proceeded to exploits more worthy of his ancient renown, he conceived the project of stealing a treasure.

Carnot's receptions in evening dress, redolent of benzine, "because the dress had been lying _perdu_ for so many years." It was he who started the famous "taverne du bagne," on the Boulevard Rochechouart, to which "all Paris" flocked.