Comte de Pembroke

people arrested on the orders of the king or his ministers for offenses like conspiracy and subversion. Distinguished former inmates included Voltaire, who wroteOedipus there in 1718. The seven prisoners in residence that day were: four forgers, the Comte de Solanges (inside for a sexual misdemeanor) and two lunatics (one of whom was an English or Irish man named Major Whyte, who sported a waist-length beard and thought he was Julius Caesar). One hundred lives were lost in the attack, including that