Louis and of the legion of honour, was recaptured, convicted of appearing under a false name, suspected of the murder of the Pontis family, recognised as an evaded convict, and was sent to end his days in the Bagne at Brest.
Thenceforth the Bagne ceased to be an infirmary of martyrs, and became a workshop of vigorous labourers.
However, he was executed at the bagneof Toulon four years later (1829).
At the instance of Abbe Bonnet he gave himself up, at the beginnng of the Restoration, and was sent to the bagne for ten years, returning in 1827.
A detachment of prisoners is to march to-morrow from this for the Bagne de Brest; hold yourself in readiness to accompany the military escort.
What is more natural to suppose than that on leaving the bagne he assumed his mother's name as a disguise, and called himself Jean Mathieu?
As he had no other weapon but his hatred, he resolved to sharpen it in the bagne and take it with him when he left.
On leaving that shapeless black thing which is called the bagne the Bishop had hurt his soul, in the same way as a too brilliant light would have hurt his eyes on coming out of darkness.
These two were brought from the bagne and confronted with the pretended Champmathieu, and they did not hesitate for a moment.
Jean Valjean entered the bagne sobbing and shuddering: he left it stoically.
You were at the Toulon bagne twenty years ago, and I was there too.
He said mass in the middle of the bagne at an altar, and had a pointed gold thing on his head, which glistened in the bright sunshine; we were drawn up on three sides of a square, with guns and lighted matches facing us.
One fact we must not omit mentioning is that he possessed a physical strength with which no one in the bagne could compete.
Before long he was recognised at Grenoble by one of those whom he had nominated to his staff at Frejus, and being tried again he was now sent to the Bagne of Brest.
Pierre Cognard, when serving a sentence of fourteen years in the Bagne of Brest, made his escape, and passed into Spain, where he joined an irregular corps under the guerilla leader Nina, and gained the cross of Alcantara.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bagne" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
