Footnote Stories

    A Laboratory at Saint-Lazare

    Footnote 1

    “À Saint-Lazare”: A song by Aristide Bruant
    Madame Steinheil’s trial at the Court of Assises

    Footnote 2

    Famous Prisoners of Saint-Lazare: Marguerite Steinheil
    “Saint-Lazare Plage.” “The Bathing Beach at Saint-Lazare.”

    Footnote 3

    Famous Prisoners of Saint-Lazare: Mme. Henriette Caillaux
    Prisoners at the Prison Cantine

    Footnote 4

    Prison Labor and Prison Script: Saint Lazare
    Risque postcard of Mata Hari in costume. Source: “Souvenirs D’un Médecin des Prisons de Paris (Grasset, 1925)

    Footnote 5

    Saint-Lazare’s most famous prisoner: Mata Hari
    Prisoners in Workroom

    Footnote 6

    Sœur Léonide, Saint-Lazare, and the Legion of Honor

    Saint-Lazare as a Women’s Prison Exhibit

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