The book "Early French Prisons. Grand and Petit Chatelets; Vincennes; Bastille; Loch; Galley Prisons; Revolutionary Prisons" by Arthur Griffiths examines the history of French prisons from the Middle Ages to during the revolution. The author examines the life of prisoners, conditions of detention, methods of punishment, as well as the political context in which these prisons functioned. The book provides the reader with an opportunity to better understand the social, political and cultural aspects of French history through the prism of its prisons.