Yvonne Henri Monceau - La mal coiffée [Une prison militaire à Moulins] - 1945

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This point is quite difficult to elucidate.
Obviously, the first person locked up in the Château de Moulins was a woman whose wealth and misfortunes made her famous throughout the world: I mean the Duchess of Montmorency.
After the death of her husband, beheaded in Toulouse on October 30, 1632, the Duchess was sent to Moulins as a prisoner. Arrived at the castle of this city, on November 18, 1632, it was not to leave it until August 9, 1634. We know that she lived in a part of the castle, absolutely dilapidated; that it was necessary to lend him the most indispensable furniture; that, for her, they put locks on the doors and bars on the windows. She was under the constant surveillance of an exempt person and two guards, who only authorized visits at certain times of the day.
When, in 1661, the Bourbonnais returned to the Prince of Condé, the latter placed a "captain" at the Château de Moulins and was not otherwise interested in it. The captain, officially or not, installed many tenants in the castle and in the “Mal-Coiffée”; this is how one floor of the “Mal-Coiffée” was reserved for notaries. A certain Madame Marie de la Souche (I) made her will there and died there on March 2, 1717.
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