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Bookmark or Share- Devil's Island - WikipediaThe penal colony of Cayenne (French: Bagne de Cayenne), commonly known as Devil's Island (Île du Diable), was a French penal colony that operated for 100 years, from 1852 to 1952, and officially closed in 1953, in the Salvation Islands of French Guiana.
- Henri Charrière And The True Story Of Papillon's Devil's Island EscapeHenri Charrière escaped from Devil's Island in 1942, published the bestselling "Papillon," and ultimately won his freedom in 1970. How this Paris gangster escaped the infamous prison on Devil's Island and became a celebrity for it.
- Why Devil's Island Was The World's Most Feared Prison - All That's ...From 1852 to 1953, Devil’s Island — which actually encompasses three islands off the coast of French Guiana and a slice of Cayenne — housed French prisoners. Their crimes ranged from offending Napoleon III to murder.
- Inside the Brutal French Guiana Prison That Inspired ‘Papillon’One of the most well-known inmates was Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish-French officer wrongly accused of treason, who spent four years incarcerated at a notorious prison there called Devil’s Island.
- Devil’s Island - History and Facts | History HitDubbed the Dry Guillotine by former prisoner and author, René Belbenoît, Devil's Island was a brutal penal colony in picturesque French Guiana. Hellish conditions, disease, and unimaginable torture were just some of the stories to make it off the island.
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