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In 1792 the monastery was confiscated by the French government and the canonesses were forced to disband. In late 1793 the complex was leased by Eugène
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confinement. The majority of the people held there escaped execution. The most notorious prisoner at the
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The former monastery gardens were seized by the city and used to bury the bodies of those executed at a
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in 1571. Its site is in the corner of what is now
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