2) Damiens' Bed of Steel. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...R. F. Damiens, in 1757, attempted the life of Louis XV. He was taken to the Conciergerie; an iron bed, which likewise served as a chair, was prepared for him, and...

3) Vi'olon'. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...clerks and students that the bailiff of the palace shut many up in the lower room of the conciergerie (prison) while the courts were sitting; but as they were guilty...

4) Marie Antoinette. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Marie Antoinette's son was taken from her (see Louis XVII), and she was transferred to the Conciergerie. Known derisively as the "Widow Capet," she was tried before...

5) Rochambeau and the French in America. I. From Unpublished Documents. IX. Jusserand, Jean Jules. 1916. With Americans of Past and Present Days
...and touching thing it is to note that, when a prisoner in that horrible sepulchre, the Conciergerie, he appealed to the Citizen President of the Revolutionary Tribunal,...