This book was written in my uncle's other restaurant Il Pappagallo back in the day. So as a gift, he gave me a copy of the book. He had read the book and loved it so much. I told this guy Neil about this and he was shocked that my family knew this guy. My brother was just an infant/toddler at this time and they would take turns throwing him in the air, swinging him, etc. He was a customer of my uncle's restaurant Il Padrino, in Venezuela, back in the 60's,70's (after this story was told). This b My mother knew Papillon and another one of the characters in the book (Francoise).
My mother knew Papillon and another one of the characters in the book (Francoise). Since then, it has become a treasured classic - the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who would not be defeated.more His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken.Ĭharrière's astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape.
PAPILLON HENRI CHARRIERE SERIES
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. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape.
After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorio Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit.
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