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Henri Charrière was born in 1906 in the south of France. At the age of 17, he went to serve in the French Navy, but soon after he hated the service and left it at the first opportunity. Henri entered the path of crime and became known by the nickname Papillon which means Moth, because he had a butterfly tattoo on his chest. Later Charrière was convicted on 26 October 1931 of the murder of a pimp named Roland Le Petit, a charge that he strenuously denied. He was sentenced to life in prison and ten years of hard labour. After a brief imprisonment at the transit prison of Beaulieu in Caen, France, he was transported in 1933 to the prison of St-Laurent-du-Maroni on the Maroni River, in the penal settlement of mainland French Guiana. Generally, at that time the French authorities sent to hard labor on such a long voyage exclusively political prisoners, who posed a real threat not only to society, but also to the state. However, why Charrière ended up in Guiana is truly a mystery. As you can se
