Brewer's: Conciergerie

(French.) The office or room of a concierge or porter's lodge; a state prison. During the Revolution it was the prison where the chief victims were confined prior to execution.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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