The Prison of the Carmelite friars was installed during the Révolution in the old monastery of the Carmelite friars with Paris. This one formed a vast enclosure covering the space circumscribed by the streets of the Glance, of Seek-Midday, and Cassette, and was bordered in the south by the street of Vaugirard.

After stripbeing stripped of its silverware and its library, the community of the monks exposed Carmes had to leave his monastery, which was transformed into Prison to accommodate the “suspects”, which became, to a large extent, the victims of horrible “the slaughters of September 1792 ”.

116 priest S thus whose bishop S were massacred there under particularly wretched conditions by the excited ones, under the control of the police chief Stanislas-Marie Maillard, executor of the orders of the Inspection committee. This one had installed a “court” in the convent. He “judged” and one by one condemned all those which were presented in front of him “to the force”. The door opened and as soon as the unhappy monks who had refused to lend oath to the civil Constitution of the clergy crossed the threshold of it, they fell under the spades or the bayonets. This massacre lasted all during the night.

The archbishop of Arles, Jean-Marie of Lau, the bishops of Beauvais, François of Rochefoucauld-Bayers, and Holy, Louis of Rochefoucauld-Bayers, his brother, was locked up in the church. During the days of the 2, 3, 4 and September 5th 1792, the three prelates and the priests were massacred in the gardens of the convent.

Among the priests, eights were members of the municipality of Canadian parish of the Quebec Saint-Sulpice. Among these eights, there was André Grasset, priest of the archbishop's palace of Direction, born with the Canada. There was also twenty-three old Jésuite S which, having refused the civil Constitution of the clergy, was put at died during the Massacres of September. Three Jésuite S are particularly known for us: Happy Jacques Bonnaud, general vicar of Lyon, Guillaume-Antoine Delfaud, archpriest of Daglan (the Dordogne), and Alexandre Lanfant, preacher of the Court.

Guillaume-Antoine Delfaud, appointed clergy with the General states, which voted with the Third-State, against the privileges, refused the civil Constitution of the clergy, remaining Fidèle to Rome, gesture badly considering. Denounced, then stopped, it was locked up in the prison of the Carmelite friars, where it perishes among his companions Martyr S.

Those which died this day were called the “martyrs of September” or the “martyrs of the Carmelite friars. ”

Joséphine de Beauharnais and Therese Tallien was imprisoned there during the Révolution. Joséphine de Beauharnais wrote its hand a message which was contresigned by Therese Tallien on a wall: “ Freedom, when will you cease being a vain word? Here are seventeen days that we are locked up. It is said to us that we will leave tomorrow, but is not-not a vain hope there? ”. This message was placed in a window, where it can be read. The bones of the priest S Martyr S them were placed in a mounting out of glass with the convent of the Carmelite friars, which became the Catholic Institut of Paris.

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External bonds

• To read the relation of the massacre of the prison of the Carmelite friars by the abbot Berthelet de Barbot (one of the sixteen officially saved priests)