Notable Prisoners
- Émile Goué, French composer.
- Pierre Jacobsen, escaped October 1941. Later the first Deputy Director-General of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM).
- Élie de Rothschild, banker and businessman.
- Marian Konopiński, Capuchin friar and Catholic priest. One of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs, beatified in 1999.
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