Tag: Royale Island

• Papillon – The Butterfly Pinned..?

  

  Meet Henri Charriere. Frenchman, Venezuelan, career criminal, transportee to Devil’s Island, denier of the murder that sent him there, happy to claim to have committed a murder while he was there and general storyteller and writer. Also known as ‘Papillon (due to a butterfly tattoo on his chest) and writer of the eponymous book turned…

  CrimeScribe

  October 20, 2014

  History, Odds And Ends, True Crime

  Alfred Dreyfus, capital punishment, Charles Brunier, Charles de Gaulle, Charles de Villiers, convicted, convicts, crime, crime and punishment, cruel and unusual, danger, devil’s island, escape, escaped, escaper, escapers, France, Free french, French, French Guiana, History, murder, Papillon, penal colonies, prison, prisons, Royale Island, St. Joseph Island, transportees, true crime, Truman Capote, Venezuela, wrongly convicted