henry charriére: pappilon

Advocacy• Blog• SHOP•About Us• School & Library Products Login | Subscribe Contributors History PrintEmail Share A+ A- Henri Charrière i Help us expand this topic. Submit Contribution Henri Charrière, byname Papillon (born 1906, Ardèche, France—died July 29, 1973, Madrid, Spain), French criminal and prisoner in French Guiana who described a lively career of imprisonments, adventures, and escapes in an autobiography, Papillon (1969). Charrière’s nickname derived from the design of a butterfly (French: “papillon”) tattooed on his chest. As a young man he was a safecracker, a thief, and, by some accounts, a pimp in Paris when he was arrested and convicted in 1931 of murdering a Montmartre gangster-pimp, Roland Legrand. Charrière always denied his guilt for the murder and attacked the inequities of French justice. Nevertheless, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to Cayenne, the notorious penal colony in French Guiana. His first escape, three years later, was made in an open boat about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) to Maracaibo; he lived with some jungle Indians, moved on, and was caught and shipped to Devil’s Island. He tried eight more escapes, succeeded on the last, floating away on a coconut raft (1944), and settled in Venezuela, working at various jobs over the years, remarrying, and establishing a profitable restaurant in Caracas. At the age of 62 in 1968 he wrote Papillon, which was published the following year in France (and which, by the time of his death in 1973, had sold about 5,000,000 copies in 16 languages). It was made into a film in 1973. In 1970 the French minister of justice issued a decree of grace, removing legal restrictions on Charrière’s return to France. In 1972 he published an autobiographical sequel, Banco (Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillon). Charrière was accused of inventing many of the adventures in Papillon and appropriating to himself the adventures of others. Two debunking books in this vein were Georges Ménager’s Les Quatre Vérités de Papillon (1970; “The Four Truths of Papillon”) and Gérard de Villiers’ Papillon épinglé (1970; “Butterfly Pinned”). BibliographyTable Of Contents Help us expand the resources for this topic. Click below to submit new publication for review and accepted updates will be published to the site. Submit a publication Submit a publicationSearch for an ISBN number: ISBN:Or enter the publication information: Author Name: Publication Title: Date: Editor: I agree to the Terms and Conditions* *This field is required WebsitesTable Of Contents Help us expand the resources for this topic. Click below to submit new website for review and accepted updates will be published to the site. 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