Prison Pets in the French Revolution

Beasts behind bars - Katharine MacDonogh tells the tale of the animals forced to share their owners' fall from grace after 1789.

Katharine MacDonogh | Published in History Today Volume 46 Issue 8 August 1996

Engraving of the suicide of Condorcet in his prison cell in March 1794, with his jailers entering with their guard dogs.It is appropriate that the end of the French Enlightenment should coincide with the publication of the last volume of the Comte de Buffon's hugely popular Histoire Naturelle in 1788.

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