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Exhibition: “Prisonnières - The final years of Saint-Lazare Prison (1919-1932)”
Culture · Thursday, September 17 · 09:00 · Paris
Médiathèque Françoise Sagan, 8 rue Léon Schwartzenberg
Free
After the end of World War I, all Parisians know the somber façade of Saint-Lazare prison in the Saint-Denis suburb. Behind the crumbling walls of this former convent, punishment and care take place. The only women’s prison in Paris, it housed up to more than a thousand detainees: defendants, those sentenced to short terms, prostitutes who broke the regulations or were afflicted with syphilis. These latter are treated in the special infirmary, a true hospital-prison. The fate of this institution, often compared to a leprosy at heart…
