France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy, with his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, leaves his residence to present himself to La Santé prison on Tuesday. Photograph: Julien de Rosa/AFP/Getty Images
Perhaps France’s most fabled jail, La Santé – where the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has begun a five-year term for criminal conspiracy to raise campaign funds from Libya – is the last remaining prison inside the Paris city limits.
Located in the southern Montparnasse district of the capital, it opened in 1867 and was the scene of at least 40 executions, the last in 1972.
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