Papillon biography
Papillon biography
Papillon biography book.
Papillon (book)
1969 prison escape memoir by Henri Charrière
Not to be confused with Le Papillon des étoiles.
Papillon (French:[papijɔ̃], lit.
"butterfly") is a novel written by Henri Charrière, first published in France on 30 April 1969. Papillon is Charrière's nickname.[1] 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 1931 and 1945.
While Charrière claimed that Papillon was largely true, modern researchers believe that much of the book’s material came from other inmates, rather than Charrière himself.[2]
Synopsis
The book is an account of a 14-year period in Papillon's life (October 26, 1931, to 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.
He eventually escaped f