6/5/2023 0 Comments Papillon by Henri Charrière![]() ![]() ![]() He agreed to protect Dega from attackers trying to get his charger. Papillon befriended Louis Dega, a former banker convicted of counterfeiting. Men were attacked for many reasons, including money, which most kept in a charger (a hollow metal cylinder concealed in the rectum also known as a plan d'evasion, plan, or "escape suppository"). Violence and murders were common among the convicts. He eventually escaped from the colony and settled in Venezuela, where he lived and prospered.Īfter a brief stay at a prison in Caen, Papillon was put aboard a vessel bound for South America, where he learned about the brutal life that prisoners endured at the prison colony. The book is an account of a 14-year period in Papillon's life (Octoto October 18, 1945), beginning when he was wrongly convicted of murder in France and sentenced to a life of hard labor at the Bagne de Cayenne, the penal colony of Cayenne in French Guiana known as Devil's Island. The novel details Papillon's purported incarceration and subsequent escape from the French penal colony of French Guiana, and covers a 14-year period between 19. "butterfly") is a fantastical novel written by Henri Charrière, first published in France on 30 April 1969. ![]()
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