… British communities and their paroled ‘guests’. Places > Cities Mots-clés Correspondence Europe France Residences Travel War Parole was a form of captivity used by Britain for certain types of prisoners who had been captured because of … and they then read their way through nearly four thousand books. Titles borrowed included volumes of military history, travel writing and novels. 6 4 . Renaud Morieux, The Society of Prisoners: Anglo-French Wars and Incarceration in the Eighteenth …