. Paris and environs : with routes from London to Paris and from Paris to the Rhine and Switzerland : handbook for travellers. ramway-station. The gesture of the figureforms an allusion to the anecdote that when the general, who de-fended the chateau in 1814 and 1815, was called on to surrender,he replied that he would not do so till the Allies restored to himthe leg he had lost at the battle of Wagram. The Cha,teau de Vincennes (shown on Sat., 12-4, by permissionfrom the Ministt-re de la Guerre at Paris) was founded in the12th cent, and afterwards gradually enlarged. It was used as aroyal res
. Paris and environs : with routes from London to Paris and from Paris to the Rhine and Switzerland : handbook for travellers. ramway-station. The gesture of the figureforms an allusion to the anecdote that when the general, who de-fended the chateau in 1814 and 1815, was called on to surrender,he replied that he would not do so till the Allies restored to himthe leg he had lost at the battle of Wagram. The Cha,teau de Vincennes (shown on Sat., 12-4, by permissionfrom the Ministt-re de la Guerre at Paris) was founded in the12th cent, and afterwards gradually enlarged. It was used as aroyal residence till 1740, when Louis XV. converted it into amanufactory of porcelain. In 1751 these works were removed toSevres, and the Chateau de Vincennes became first a militaryschool and then (1757) a weapon-manufactory. In 1832-44, underLouis Philippe , the chateau was strongly fortified and transformedinto an extensive artillery depot, with an Ecole de Tir. The chateau was used as a State Prison from the days of Louis XI.(14GI-83) onwards. Among many illustrious persons who have been con- ^ r- .^^ ,V^ -^-A !b> i;: ^^^.. Sriil iiva L.^^^^ 8. VTNCENNKS. 209 fined within its walls, mav be mentioned the King of Navarre (1674), theGrand Conde (1650), Cardinal de lietz (1652), Fouquet (16G1), Count Mirabeau(1777), the Due dEnghien (1804), the ministers of Charles X. (1830), andthe conspirators against the National Assembly (15th May, 1848). A melancholy interest attaches to the fortress from its having beenthe scene of the execution of the unfortunate Due dEnghien, the lastscion of the illustrious Conde family. On the suspicion that he wasimplicated in a conspiracy against the emperor, he was arrested by orderof Napoleon on 14th March 1804, on German territory, conveyed to Vin-cennes, and there condemned to death by a court-martial. The sentencewas executed on 20th March, and the body of the duke interred in thefosse where he was shot. In 1816 Louis XVIII. caused his remains to ber
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