page_title: La Force Prison
section_title: Notable prisoners
hierarchical_section_title: La Force Prison / Notable prisoners
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Princess of Lamballe
context_page_description: La Force Prison was a French prison located in the Rue du Roi de Sicile, in what is now the 4th arrondissement of Paris. Originally known as the Hôtel de la Force, the buildings formed the private residence of Henri-Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de la Force. Towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV, the Hôtel de la Force was divided into two parts, one of which took the name of the Hôtel de Brienne, and had its entrance in the Rue Pavée; the other retained its former name and had its entrance in the Rue du Roi de Sicile.
context_section_description: Detainees included:
  Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert
  Jean Sylvain Bailly
  Pierre-Jean de Béranger
  Aimé Picquet du Boisguy
  Edme Castaing
  Constantin-François Chassebœuf
  Clotworthy Skeffington, 2nd Earl of Massereene, Irish nobleman
  Claude Fournier
  Évariste Galois
  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  Victor Claude Alexandre Fanneau de Lahorie
  Claude Ledoux
  Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet
  Gregor MacGregor
  Marie Angélique de Mackau
  Francisco de Miranda
  Anne de Noailles
  Princess Marie Louise of Savoy
  Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud and 12 other Girondist deputies
  Fictional detainees included:
  Charles Darnay (fictional character in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities)
  Lucien de Rubempré (fictional character in Honoré de Balzac's Illusions perdues)
  Thénardier (fictional character in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables)
  Benedetto (fictional character in Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte-Cristo)
caption: Portrait of princess de Lamballe
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