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Ancienne maison d'arrêt

Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Ancienne maison d'arrêt, y compris ses cours de promenade et son mur d'enceinte (cad. AK 156) : inscription par arrêté du 17 décembre 1996
Protection dates
1996/12/17 : inscrit MH
Type
prison
Main period of construction
milieu 19e siècle
Dates
1855
Architect or builder
MANGEON (architecte), TRELAT (architecte)
Ownership
propriété de l'État
Address
1 rue du Sergent-Perrier
Commune
Fontainebleau
Département
Seine-et-Marne
Region
Île-de-France
Country
France
Coordinates
48.40964, 2.70356
Mérimée reference
PA77000003

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1758 map "7 Fontainebleau, Etampes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Etablissement construit en 1855 par les architectes du département Mangeon et Trélat, selon les critères de la circulaire ministérielle de 1841 (système cellulaire ou emprisonnement individuel). Désaffectée en 1900, la prison doit devenir un musée national des prisons.

English translation

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Establishment built in 1855 by the department architects Mangeon and Trélat, according to the criteria of the ministerial circular of 1841 (cellular system or individual imprisonment). Abandoned in 1900, the prison was to become a national prison museum.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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