The Bagne of Toulon was a notorious prison in Toulon, France, made famous as the place of imprisonment of the fictional Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor...

municipalities of Bagnes and Vollèges merged to form the new municipality of Val de Bagnes. With an area of 282 km2 (108.88 sq mi), Bagnes used to be the...

Persicula bagne is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae. Faber, M.J. (2006). "The genera...

The penal colony of Cayenne (French: Bagne de Cayenne), commonly known as Devil's Island (Île du Diable), was a French penal colony that operated for...

prisoners from the Bagne of Toulon in one of his early stories, Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné. He went to Toulon to visit the Bagne in 1839 and took extensive...

prisoners. It crushes them, that's all, and the pieces go where they may. (Au bagne, 1923) And the article continued: "I was taken to these places. I was taken...

La route du bagne is a 1945 French film starring Viviane Romance. It recorded admissions of 2,878,060 in France. It was shot at the Victorine Studios...

Bagne de Toulon, was closed in 1873.[citation needed] The penal colony in French Guiana, which was not shut down until 1953, was also called a bagne,...

The Brest Prison (French - bagne de Brest) was a 254m long prison in Brest, France. It was built between 1749 and 1751 by Antoine Choquet de Lindu, dominating...

lines include the section from Montsinéry-Tonnegrande to the so-called bagne des Annamites, the section from Saint-Élie to the Saut du Tigre labor camp...