Abbaye in A Sentence

    1

    But violence succeeded violence, and early on the morning of the 1st of June she was arrested and thrown into the prison of the Abbaye.

    2

    Favras took into his confidence certain officers by whom he was betrayed; and, with his wife, he was arrested on Christmas Eve 1789 and imprisoned in the Abbaye.

    3

    He took refuge in the house of a washerwoman, but was discovered, haled before the Legislative Assembly, and imprisoned in the Abbaye, where he perished in the September massacres.

    4

    He was accused, though proof is lacking, of having been an accomplice in the massacres in the prison of the Abbaye.

    5

    Released for an hour from the Abbaye, she was again arrested and thrown among the horrors of Sainte-Pelagie.