Notable inmates

Jacques Decour (French pronunciation: [ʒak dəkuʁ]; born Daniel Decourdemanche; 21 February 1910 – 30 May 1942), was a French writer, Germanist, essayist, translator and resistant fighter, executed by the Nazis.

Jacques Feldbau was a French mathematician, born on 22 October 1914 in Strasbourg, of an Alsatian Jewish traditionalist family.

Jacques Fesch (6 April 1930 – 1 October 1957) was a French criminal who was convicted of the murder of police officer Jean Vergne in February 1954.

Jacques Grippa (March 30, 1913– August 30, 1990) was a Belgian politician, member of the resistance during World War II and communist.

Jacques Helbronner (1873-1943) was a French jurist, civil servant and Jewish official.

Jacques Legrand (24 October 1906 – 30 June 1944) was a French Resistance leader and a chemical engineer at the Curie Institute in Paris.

Jacques Lusseyran (19 September 1924 – 27 July 1971) was a French author and political activist.

Jacques Mesrine (French pronunciation: [ʒak mɛʁin, mɛsʁin]; 28 December 1936 – 2 November 1979) was a French criminal responsible for numerous murders, bank robberies, burglaries, and kidnappings in France, the US, and Canada.

Jacques Perret (September 8, 1901, Trappes, Yvelines – December 10, 1992, Paris) was a French writer best known for his novel Le Caporal Épinglé (1947), which tells the story of his captivity in Germany and of his escape attempts.

Jacques Pierre Brissot (French pronunciation: [ʒak pjɛʁ bʁiso]; 15 January 1754 – 31 October 1793), also known as Brissot de Warville, was a French journalist, abolitionist, and revolutionary leading the faction of the Girondins (initially called Brissotins) at the National Convention in Paris.

Jacques Renouvin (French pronunciation: [ʒak ʁənuvɛ̃]; 6 October 1905 – 24 January 1944) was a royalist militant in France during the Second World War and hero of the French Resistance.

Jokūbas Bernardas Šernas (30 July 1925 – 3 July 2015), commonly known as Jacques Sernas and sometimes credited as Jack Sernas, was a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career.