MICRO-MUSEUM OF THE PENITENTIARY AGRICULTURAL COLONY
Located in the vicinity of Rochecorbon, this establishment was created in 1839 by a former magistrate, Frédéric-Auguste Demetz, and reserved for children and adolescents. Life was harsh and the practice was particularly harsh: from 1840 to 1854, the colony accounted for ninety-nine deaths. In the 1930 s, a journalist denounced the children's prison scandal, while the writer Jean Genet recounted in his novel, Le Miracle de la rose, the three terrible years spent in Mettray from 1926 to 1929. This museum evokes the life and history of the colony.
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