Henri Manuel, photographe des prisons dans l’entre-deux guerres

Henri Manuel's photographic collection dedicated to prisons is exceptional for discovering the prisons of the era in images. "Through this presentation of this photographic archive, I propose to look beyond the images and, through their analysis, to approach what daily prison life could be like in that era, to better understand what is being told about this reality. Photographs that allow us to examine the prison world of the 30s and shed light on the meaning given to punishment."

Fabienne Huard-Hardy, historian, is currently head of the Resource Center on the History of Crimes and Sentences at the École nationale d’administration pénitentiaire. In 2017, she published Le manuel des prisons. Regards sur des prisons de l’entre-deux-guerres with Presses de l’Enap.

The Comité d'Histoire de la Ville de Paris, the Histoire et vies du 10e association, and the Médiathèque Françoise Sagan offer you a series of lectures on the theme of detention, to complement, enrich, and broaden the theme of the exhibition Prisonnières, les dernières années de la prison Saint-Lazare (1919-1932) presented at the media library.