Henri Charrière

✶November 16, 1906

†July 29, 1973

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Henri Charrière was a French writer who was convicted of murder in 1931 by the French courts and pardoned in 1970. He wrote the 1969 novel Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana. 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. Charrière denied committing the murder, although he freely admitted to having committed various other petty crimes prior to his incarceration.

French convict and author (1906-1973)

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Biography from the article Henri Charrière on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.