In doing my research for Hazardous to a Duke's Heart, I ended up making a list of famous or titled Englishmen who were deténus for varying amounts of time. There were Peter Mark Roget (yes, that Roget, the one who wrote Roget’s Thesaurus) and his friend, Lovell Edgeworth. Roget managed to get out at the end of 1803, but Lovell was detained until 1814. Then there was the Duke of Newcastle, on the Grand Tour with his mother and stepfather, who ended up detained for three years until his mother convinced Napoleon to let them go. The aging Marquess and Marchioness of Tweeddale, who’d gone to France for their health, stayed only a year at Verdun… because they died there of cholera. That’s just a few of the ones I gleaned from various accounts.
