It is also true that Henri was sent to and escaped from the French penal colony in what was then (and still is) French Guiana. Although Henri claimed he was innocent, some writers who have looked into the matter see no reason to think he was innocent. He was convicted of killing a friend and sentenced to life imprisonment. That Henri Charrière was born in Ardèche, France in 1906 is true, and as a young man he gravitated toward the Parisian underworld. Henri wrote a sequel, Banco, about the years after his release, and died in 1973, his life a testimony of struggle against man's inhumanity to man.
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Papillon was published in 1969 by Éditions Robert Laffont. If there was a #1 inmate on - quote - "Devil's Island" - unquote - it was Henri Charrière, alias, Papillon.
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You'd think Henri practically ran the place, making deals with the warden when he would or wouldn't escape, mandating where he could be transferred, and even advising the officers how to deal with a prisoner revolt. Henri, we learn, was one of the elite among the convicts, a true man-among- bagnards. Finally he settled down and became a productive and law-abiding citizen of the country. Later he left Georgetown without authorization, sailed to Venezuela, was imprisoned again, and eventually was released. Then he and two companions escaped by boat to Georgetown, British Guiana. There he crafted a raft of coconuts and floated back to the coast.
After a number of other escape attempts and a second stretch in solitary, he was transferred to Devil's Island ten miles from the mainland. While he served two years in solitary, he was never allowed out of his cell or permitted to speak. Within a few weeks, he escaped to Columbia, lived among the Guajira Indians for seven months, was recaptured, and returned to the prison. Pick up a copy of Papillon, the famous autobiography of Henri Charrière, and you'll learn Henri was unjustly convicted of murder in Paris in 1931 and sent to the French prison colony in French Guiana - the infamous bagne.
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