to house males committed for trial. These prisoners were divided into two separate groups: the old offenders into one ward, the young and comparatively innocent into another. The prisoners slept in large and well ventilated chambers, and the boys each had a small apartment which contained a single bed. The prisoners had the privilege of working if they wished, but they were not obliged to do so, inasmuch as they were on remand and not yet convicted of crime. There was a department for the sick, a bathing-room, a parlor, and an advocate's room, where the prisoners could hold conversations with their legal defenders. The two prisons of La Force were demolished in 1845, and the only remaining part is a section of wall adjoining the City of Paris Historical Library. Notable prisoners Detainees included: Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert Jean Sylvain Bailly Pierre-Jean de Béranger Aimé Picquet du Boisguy Edme Castaing George Henry Caunter Constantin-François Chassebœuf Clotworthy Skeffington, 2nd Earl of Massereene, Irish nobleman Claude Fournier Évariste Galois Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Victor Claude Alexandre Fanneau de Lahorie Claude Ledoux Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet Gregor MacGregor Marie Angélique de Mackau Francisco de Miranda Anne de Noailles Princess Marie Louise of Savoy Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud and 12 other Girondist deputies Fictional detainees included: Charles Darnay (fictional character in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities) Lucien de Rubempré (fictional character in Honoré de Balzac's Illusions perdues) Thénardier (fictional character in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables) Benedetto (fictional character in Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte-Cristo) James Dillon (fictional character in John Hobart Caunter's The Fellow Commoner (1836)) Footnotes Attribution Sources External links Hôtel de La Force La Force Prisons, Gallery 1780 establishments in France Defunct prisons in Paris Buildings and structures in the 4th arrondissement of Paris Buildings and structures demolished in 1845