Notable inmates

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (pronounced [pjɛʁ oɡystɛ̃ kaʁɔ̃ d(ə) bomaʁʃɛ]; né Caron; 24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a French playwright and diplomat of the Age of Enlightenment.

Pierre Théophile Victorien Marie Chaplais (8 July 1920 – 26 November 2006) was a French historian.

Pierre Culioli (1912–1994), was a French tax officer who, during the World War II, led the ADOLPH resistance network in the triangle of land between Tours, Orléans and Vierzon.

André Isaac (15 August 1893 Châlons-sur-Marne, France – 9 February 1975 Paris, France), better known as Pierre Dac, was a French humorist.

Pierre Georges Daix (24 May 1922 – 2 November 2014) was a French journalist, writer and art historian.

Pierre Dejussieu-Pontcarral (14 February 1898, Lyon – 1 August 1984, Paris) was a French military man who fought during World War I, and again during World War II when he became one of the leaders of French Resistance.

The Abbé Pierre de Porcaro (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ də pɔʁkaʁɔ]; August 1904 – 12 March 1945) was a French Roman Catholic priest who worked as an undercover minister during the Second World War.

Pierre de Crevoisier de Vomécourt (1 January 1906, Chassey-lès-Montbozon, Haute-Saône – 1986), code names Etienne, Lucas, and Sylvain, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive during World War II.