num_pages: 595
description: Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken.Charrière's astonishing autobiography, Papillon , was published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape. Since then, it has become a treasured classic -- the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who would not be defeated.
language: French
title: Papillon
titlecomplete: Papillon (Le Livre De Poche)
genres: Biography, Crime, Biography Memoir, Classics, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Adventure, History, Memoir, France
ratings_count: 68164
places: Paris, French Guiana, Devil's Island, France
series: Papillon
publisher: Pocket