6/8/2023 0 Comments Papillon henri charriere![]() ![]() With intensity and adventure packed thickly across its pages, this vivid narrative novel is a compelling read. Making nine daring escapes in thirteen years, and using only a makeshift coconut-sack raft to travel through shark-infested seas, Henri’s account of his run in Papillon is exciting and nothing short of determined daredevilry. It’s not likely that he will make an attempt at escape from the wildly notorious Devil’s Island penal colony. He gets recaptured, and is sent to the Devil’s Island penal colony, a container of brutality and disease, where he is to serve his term in solitary confinement. Just forty-two days into serving his prison term, he successfully escapes by travelling a thousand miles on an open boat. Henri, aged 25, is convicted for a murder he didn’t commit, and is sentenced to serve a term of hard labor at the penal colony of French Guiana. A vivid and sensational memoir, Papillon describes Henri’s journey from wrongful conviction and confinement to liberty and freedom.
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