Bastille Best Picture Competition?

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Bastille Best Picture Competition?

Ok so everyone in my form has to make a poster or collage or whatever of how you think prisoners in the bastille were treated?? any suggestions on the layout and what pictures i should get?? i am allowed to hand draw or use pc....

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Depends when. When it was attacked they discovered only 7 prisoners, common criminals and a madman. The prison had become too expensive to maintain and was being closed.

During its time as a prison you had two treatments :
Those who could pay and the high born were very well treated. Good rooms in the higher levels with windows, furniture, meals from outside, even visitors and were well treated by the guards.They could have their own furniture brought to their rooms, their table service, their books, even a servant. The governor himself greeted the high born nobles and would invite them at his table. The prisoners could walk around freely.

Those who couldn't pay were locked in the lower levels, were badly treated by the guards, beaten and even tortured. No bedding, only some straw the prisoner had to buy, bread and water. Some even went mad. The rule was that to be freed a prisoner had to have enough money to feed himself, if he didn't have it he stayed locked in. Some were locked for so long they were forgotten there until they died or went mad. (In 1749 the governor took an interest in an old mad prisoner who was becoming too much trouble, he discovered that the poor man had been sent to prison for a small crime 54 years ago and forgotten, those who had sent him to prison having died long ago).

There never was more than 45 prisoners.

Here is a picture of what it looked like :
http://www.prison.eu.org/article.php3?id...