Pignerol

They reduced him to the utmost distress, he lost all his conquests, was obliged, by a dishonourable peace, to quit what he had got by encroachment, to demolish his invincible towns, such as Pignerol,

The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) Daniel Defoe 1696

Fouquet was condemned to life in prison—locked up alongside Eustache Dauger, aka the Man in the Iron Mask, in the alpine town of Pignerol—and never returned to Vaux.

Beware of Catching the King's Eye Jonathan Lopez 2011

Some have said that he was the duke of Beaufort, but the duke of Beaufort was killed by the Turks in the defence of Candia, in 1669, and the Man in the Iron Mask was at Pignerol in 1672.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

He was first confined at Pignerol, before he was sent to the

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

All conquests restored to the duke (Pignerol and Casale).

1696 2001

The Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (April 3, 1559) involved the abandonment of French possessions, except Turin, Saluzzo, and Pignerol.

1529, Aug. 3 2001

France renounced all conquests in Italy, but by a secret treaty with Victor Amadeus, duke of Savoy, Pignerol was surrendered to France.

1627-28 2001

I recollect that Bonaparte was extremely pleased to see in the reports which he ordered to be made that in Casal, and in the valleys of Pignerol, Latour, and Luzerne, there still existed many traces of the period when those countries belonged to France; and that the French language was yet preserved there.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

All the same he commanded the Marshal of his bands to have the trumpet sounded, and to start for Pignerol, where he would follow when he had eaten

Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach Christopher Hare

Ten years of loyal devotion to her lover, shortly afterward imprisoned at Pignerol, and of untiring efforts for his release which was at last secured at the cost of half her vast estates, ended in a brief reunion.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason