Henri charriere biography papillion wikipedia

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He wrote the novel Papillon , a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana. He had two older sisters. His mother died when he was ten. In at seventeen, he enlisted in the French Navy and served for two years. After that, he became a member of the Paris underworld. He later married and had a daughter. He was sentenced to life in prison and ten years of hard labour.

He had married Georgette Fourel at the town hall of the 1st arrondissement of Paris, on December 22, They divorced on 8 July by decision of the Paris High Court. After a brief imprisonment at the transit prison of Beaulieu in Caen , France, he was transported in to the prison of St-Laurent-du-Maroni on the Maroni River , in the penal settlement of mainland French Guiana.

He spent several months living with the natives, but felt that he had to move on, which was a decision he would ultimately regret.