![]() ![]() He had married Georgette Fourel at the town hall of the 1st arrondissement of Paris, on December 22, 1929. He was sentenced to life in prison and ten years of hard labour. The version of his life presented in his semi-biographical novel, Papillon, claimed that Charrière was convicted on 26 October 1931 of the murder of a pimp named Roland Le Petit, a charge that he strenuously denied. After that, he became a member of the Paris underworld. At 17 in 1923, he enlisted in the French Navy and served for two years. ![]() Charrière denied committing the murder, although he freely admitted to having committed various other petty crimes prior to his incarceration.Ĭharrière was born at Saint-Étienne-de-Lugdarès, Ardèche, France. ![]() While Charrière claimed that Papillon was largely true, modern researchers believe that much of the book’s material came from other inmates, rather than Charrière himself. He wrote the novel Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana. ![]() Henri Charrière ( French pronunciation: 16 November 1906 – 29 July 1973) was a French writer, convicted in 1931 as a murderer by the French courts and pardoned in 1970. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |