She offered kindly to bring and introduce her to the nuns of St. Pélagie as the most proper place for her in her condition.
She accordingly went up Campeau street, at which corner St. Pélagie is situated.
This thought gave him new hopes, and, Madame Bertrand offering to accompany him, they proceeded to St. Pélagie to obtain an interview with the Lady Superioress.
The nuns at St. Pélagie were surprised when they heard of the mistake which was made, but could never find out who was the young English girl who died alone there.
St. Pélagie was used as a prison pure and simple during the revolutionary epoch and afterwards, like La Force, received debtors, convicted prisoners and prisoners of State.
In July, 1831, lads under sixteen years of age were collected in a wing of St. Pélagie and afterwards in the Magdelonettes.
St. Pélagie has now disappeared and cannot be greatly regretted.
I detected their petty malice, and I tried to put Mademoiselle Pélagie more at her ease.
Raymond offered her his arm; I motioned to Pélagie to accept it, as it was not customary for a wife to take her husband's arm when another gentleman offered his.
Luckily, neither of them perceived it: my wife enjoyed the play and Raymond, and he was in ecstasies over what he said and what Pélagie replied.
As to that, Pélagie was entirely of my opinion; she no longer dreamed of having a separate bed, and was never tempted to lock her door.
I could not see Pélagie alone for an instant; it was impossible to carry on a connected conversation with her, and I began to be impatient.
Pélagie did not say a single word in reply; indeed, I am inclined to think that she fell asleep during my speech.
A list of the celebrated prisoners who have been confined at Sainte-Pélagie would be a formidable one.
It is at Sainte-Pélagie that political prisoners are for the most part confined.
Sainte-Pélagie ceased to be a convent in 1790, and was transformed to a prison by order of the Convention.
Sainte-Pélagie continued to be a state prison, and began to afford accommodation to journalists or authors who had been indiscreet with their pen.
Under the Second Empire, as for a time under the First and during a portion of the Restoration, Sainte-Pélagie was exclusively a state prison.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lagie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
