The Holy-Clear was a Prison of Nantes under the Révolution.

Operation of the prison

With Holy Clear reign the arbitrary one and the illegality. Within sight of a report/ratio on October 14th 1793, “the house of above Holy-Clear, immense by its room and its building”, was considered to be “cleanest to make a house of detention”. In fact nothing makes it possible to improvise a prison in its conventual buildings. The only catch of Eau is a well, in the middle of a court, “with less than six feet of an enormous pit of conveniences” to the burst pipes.

More than one thousand of people however pile up there, of mid-October 1793 until the end of January 1794, the prison having been removed by a decree of the 5 pluviôse.

Role of the Caretaker of theClear ones

The caretaker Forget, member eminent of Vincent-the-Mountain reigns as a despot on theClear ones. In theory its task is purely administrative, it consists in “ensuring the guard and the supply of the prisoners, holding up to date the entries and the exits on the registers of nut; to hold in double specimen an exact accountancy of days of lodging and geôlage for each prisoner, with the corresponding expenditure”. Actually Forget made with Holy-Clear what he wants.

See too

• Jean-Baptiste Carrier
• republican Marriages
• Epidemics in Nantes during the Revolution
• History of Nantes

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