Word: templars
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...turned almost every sort of establishment into prisons, and they were all crowded to the doors. The most famous of the prisons was the Conciergerie, the antechamber of death, which still stands, though it has been greatly altered internally. This, and the Temple, the former headquarters of the Knights Templar, are the most interesting of the many places of confinement used by the Terrorists. The Temple was the prison of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Madame Elisabeth, Madame Royal, and the Dauphine, and it was thence that the king was driven to his death in January...