logees

Updated: May 17, 2025

The risk is at present too serious, and you must allow my desire of amusing you to give way to my solicitude for my own preservation. Bicetre at Amiens, Nov. 18, 1793. Nous voila donc encore, logees a la nation; that is to say, the common prison of the department, amidst the thieves, vagabonds, maniacs, &c. confined by the old police, and the gens suspects recently arrested by the new.

An English Lady - A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete: Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General: and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

The risk is at present too serious, and you must allow my desire of amusing you to give way to my solicitude for my own preservation. Bicetre at Amiens, Nov. 18, 1793. Nous voila donc encore, logees a la nation; that is to say, the common prison of the department, amidst the thieves, vagabonds, maniacs, &c. confined by the old police, and the gens suspects recently arrested by the new.

An English Lady - A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793: Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General: and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners