The Prison Door | Thomas Paine Walks Out of Luxembourg Prison

Luxembourg Prison, 1794. The chalk mark on the door had faced the wrong way when the guards came for the condemned. Thomas Paine survived by accident. When James Monroe opened the prison door, Paine walked out into Paris — spiritually broken, physically wasted, barely recognizable. The republic he had helped build was already shifting. He believed the worst was over. It wasn't. Album II of the Paine-Burke Cycle: The Age of Reason.    • Thomas Paine - Act 2 - The Age of Reason -...