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He had married Georgette Fourel at the town hall of the 1st arrondissement of Paris, on December 22, 1929. (They divorced on 8 July 1930 by decision of the Paris High Court.)
Sep 21, 2024 · Charrière settled in Caracas, where he married a Venezuelan woman and started a family. He opened a series of businesses, including a restaurant and a nightclub, to support his new life. Writing and Legacy. Charrière's incredible story didn't end with his escape. He went on to share his experiences with the world.
- Henri Charrière’s Early Life
- Arrest and Conviction of Papillon
- Papillon Breaks Out of Cayenne
- Writing Papillon
Born to schoolteacher parents in southern France in 1906, Henri Charrière sought adventure on his own terms right from the beginning. After a stint in the navy following his schooling, Charrière quickly fell in with the Paris underworld. Nicknamed “Papillon” due to the tattoo of a butterfly (“Papillon” in French) on his chest, Charrière started out...
Despite all of his illegal activity as a Paris gangster, Henri Charrière wasn’t arrested until after the murder of local gangster and pimp Roland Legrandin 1931. Charrière claimed innocence in the death of Legrand, saying that he was a victim of dishonest informants and a French justice system that sought a hasty resolution to the case. Why exactly...
Henri Charrière broke out of Cayenne for the first time after three years in captivity. He briefly ended up in a colony of lepers before trying to sail away into the Gulf of Maracaibo on a makeshift boat. That’s when Papillon crashed his vessel and lived among a native tribe in the thick jungle for several years. When Charrière moved on once again,...
In Venezuela, Henri Charrière lived a relatively normal life — for him, anyway. He pumped gas, prospected for gold, and then ran a nightclub. At the age of 62, Charriere read the exploits of Albertine Sarrazin, a former French prostitute whose bestselling book L’Astragalegave him an idea. Charrière began to write, and write, and write some more. He...
- William Delong
Sep 28, 2018 · Henri Charrière (1906 – 1973) was a French petty criminal who was incarcerated for murder in a penal colony in French Guiana. He famously escaped the brutal prison by building a raft, and in 1970 he published the book Papillon, detailing his experiences as a prisoner.
- Patti Wigington
Henri Charrière (born 1906, Ardèche, France—died July 29, 1973, Madrid, Spain) was a French criminal and prisoner in French Guiana who described a lively career of imprisonments, adventures, and escapes in an autobiography, Papillon (1969).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
After his successful escape, Henri Charrière settled in Venezuela, where he sought to rebuild his life. He married a Venezuelan woman and was granted citizenship, officially severing ties with the penal system that had sought to break him.
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There he married two teenage sisters and impregnated both. After spending several months in relative paradise, Papillon decided to seek vengeance against those who had wronged him. Soon after leaving the village, Papillon was captured and imprisoned at Santa Marta, then transferred to Barranquilla. There, he was reunited with Clousiot and ...
