MANUSCRITED ARCHIVES OF ÉTIENNE CHARLES AUGUSTE... - Lot 179 - Lucien Paris

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MANUSCRITED ARCHIVES OF ÉTIENNE CHARLES AUGUSTE... - Lot 179 - Lucien Paris
MANUSCRITED ARCHIVES OF ÉTIENNE CHARLES AUGUSTE L'ÉVEILLÉ (1803-1888), DIRECTOR OF PARIS PENITENTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN THE 19th CENTURY Including, in particular, a statement of the cash balance of the Director of the House of Justice in 1863, two statements of deposits of money made by the inmates in the hands of the Director of the House of Justice, and a statement of the amount of money deposited by the inmates. by the inmates in the hands of the director of the House of Correctional Education, in 1864, numerous handwritten correspondence between Étienne L'Éveillé and Émile Wattebled, farmer, for the supply of prison, a complaint from an inmate of the Roquette prison in 1866, letters from the Direction des Prisons et Établissements Pénitentiaires, letters from the dépôt de Mendicité de la Seine, correspondence correspondence from notaries, judgments, suppliers' invoices, letters from parents indicating the defects of their children justifying their detention, various correspondence various, monarchist note showing silhouettes to be discovered bearing the legend in German: "Four secretly hidden silhouettes of the extraordinary beauty of the unfortunate king and queen of France next to those of the king and queen of England" (9.5 x 13.2 cm). Born on April 30, 1803, this highly esteemed professional of the penitentiary administration, will be counted among the characters of the XIXth century convinced that education and literacy are essential to help the reinsertion of the prisoners, in a time when the repression remained the only system of thought. He began his career as a clerk, then as director of the Maison d'Arrêt pour Dettes, 70, rue de Clichy, then as clerk of the Maison Centrale d'Éducation Correctionnelle du Fort de Bicêtre, then as director of the depot near the Prefecture, the Conciergerie, then as director of the Maison de Justice de la Conciergerie, then finally as director of the Maison correctionnelle des Jeunes détenus, 143, rue de la Roquette. In 1864, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour by Napoleon III. PROVENANCE : Archives of Étienne L'Éveillé, director of the Conciergerie prison under Napoleon III.
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