Well, Couvent des Ursulines, Macon, Burgundy, France

Convent well, and commemorative plaque marking the incarceration of Lamartine's father in the former Couvent des Ursulines, built 1675-80, which was a prison during the French Revolution, in Macon, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. Lamartine's father, the Chevalier de Pratz, was imprisoned for his royalist views, and Lamartine's mother would bring him here to the convent attic to visit his father. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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