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	Papillon (autobiography) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The book's title is Charrière's nickname, derived from a butterfly tattoo on his chest (papillon being the French word for butterfly).
		The book accounts for a thirteen year period in Charrière's life (October 26, 1932 to October 18, 1945) from when he was wrongly convicted of murder in France and sentenced to a life of hard labor in the French Guiana penal colony, to when he was released from a Venezuelan prison, free of French justice.
		The film version was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starred Steve McQueen as Henri Charrière (Papillon) and Dustin Hoffman as Louis Dega.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Papillon_(book) (1145 words)

	"Papillon" (1973)
		Papillon means butterfly in French, and the character has a tattoo of a blue butterfly in his chest.
		Papillon is a low-grade career criminal, a safecracker wrongly accused on murdering a pimp.
		Papillon is assigned to an empty hut on the island.
	www.prisonflicks.com /reviews.php?filmID=62 (4066 words)

	PAPILLON AND THE SOUL OF REPUBLICAN FRANCE by John Ball
		Charrière, nicknamed 'Papillon' for his butterfly tattoo, was sentenced to life imprisonment in French Guiana at the age of 25 for a homicide he did not commit.
		Meanwhile, note that Papillon's Draconic Neptune is closely conjunct his tropical Saturn, which I read as: "Papillon wrote a book (3rd house Saturn) about his scandalous victimisation by the French nation (Draconic Neptune in Pisces; being Draconic, this Neptune is attuned to the lunar, national sentiment, and particularly national confusion and scandal)".
		Papillon made his first escape 42 days after arrival in French Guiana, but was recaptured and spent 2 years in solitary confinement - during this time he walked several miles a day in his tiny cell, which allowed only five paces at a time.
	www.skyscript.co.uk /papillon.html (2782 words)

	AudioRevolution.com DVD Review of Papilion
		Papillon, coincidentally, gets his first chance at escape because he catches a rare butterfly, but he's quickly recaptured and sent to solitary for two years.
		Papillon is soon separated from the other two, and lives for a time in peace with some Indians, but nuns turn him over to the authorities, and he's sent to solitary for five years.
		PAPILLON abounds in details: the colors of the walls, the types of prison uniforms, feisty little crabs defending themselves, the lives of the Indians he lives with, and so on.
	www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/papillon.shtml (1255 words)

	Papillon by Henri Charriere
		Papillon has been described as a masterpiece of oral literature in the sense Charriere writes as though he were telling the story over a pastis.
		‘Papillon’ is French for butterfly and was Charriere’s nickname during his ears among the Paris underworld – for though he was innocent of the killing that he was charged for, he was no innocent.
		Papillon records it all with the utmost humanity though there can be no doubt that he’s one hard man. When one of his breaks fails due to a convict informing upon him, the grass is dead within a week – courtesy of Papillon’s knife in his chest.
	www.roadjunky.com /greats/papillon.shtml (1190 words)

	Govar - and my mumbo jumbo: Phenomenon de Papillon
		Papillon was a marvel of a story that I read some 4 years back, courtesy my roommate.
		Oh, and by the way, Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, Richard Branson’s autobiography and Lance Armstrong’s biography were the hot ones in the shelf.
		Papillon is on of the gretest books i've read...u can c the limits of human endurance and perseverance...a real worthy read na..
	govar.blogspot.com /2006/03/phenomenon-de-papillon_18.html (1346 words)

	Amazon.ca: Customer Reviews Books: Papillon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Papillon is not merely written, it's like a flow of words that get into your brain like water, and soon you forget who's who, you won't tell if you are either the reader or just the guy at Guyana.
		Papillon is an autobiographical dictum based on the life and events of Henri Charriere.
		The author, Henri Charriere, called "Papillon" because of the butterfly tattooed on his chest, was wrongfully convicted in a French court in 1931 and sent to a penal colony in French Guinea to serve his sentence.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0613494539/customer-reviews (2962 words)

	Banco: The Further Adventures Of Papillon
		Papillon is filled with tension, adventure and high excitement.
		Here at last is the sensational sequel to PAPILLON - the great story of escape and adventure that took the world by storm.
		Despite his resolve to become an honest man, Charriere is soon involved in hair-raising exploits with gold-miners, gamblers, bank-robbers and revolutionaries - robbing and being robbed, his lust for life as strong as ever.
	www.indiaplaza.com /books/pd.aspx?sku=0586040102 (303 words)

	Book : Papillon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Henri Charrière, called Papillon, for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 for a murder he did not commit.
		Papillon is one of those rare books that leave you sad when you finally finish reading.
		If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. For example, whenever Papillon and his friends land on British or Spanish territory, they admit they are murderers,yet they are always welcomed eagerly by the local officials who are eager to show their disdain for the barbaric French penal system.
	www.religion-of-religions.com /pdetail/0060934794/Papillon (713 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Papillon
		Papillon is the biographical tale of a French man determined to live free.
		He was known as Papillon (French for "butterfly") for the butterfly tattoo on his chest.
		For parents who think that their young children may be interested in Papillon, it should be noted that a PG rating meant something quite different in 1973.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/papillon.shtml (1205 words)

	Amazon.ca: Papillon: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Taking you from the lush, mosquito-choked jungles of the Caribbean coastline to a solitary confinement where Papillon stays sane by imagining himself in childhood haunts, this is about as picturesque a ride as you can have sitting in your comfy chair.
		What makes "Papillon" especially readable and gripping is how Charriere comes into contact with the best and worst in people, sometimes the same people.
		But he was a prisoner, and then he was free; he wrote a book that, if just 10% true, would be enough to fill out four or five adventuresome lives; and his legacy is one people still passionately relate to more than 30 years after his death.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060934794 (887 words)

	Autobiography
		He was a distinguished man in his own right, as well as a great leader of his people: he mastered the white man's learning, served in the First World War with outstanding credit, and devoted himself to the welfare of his tribe in a changing world they did not understand.
		In his autobiography Long Lance concentrates on his early life with the Blackfeet, in the days before the white man came to destroy their nomadic way of life and threaten their very existence.
		These essays constitute the third volume of Monette's autobiography and represent a testament to the struggle for the freedom of all gays and lesbians.
	www.bookworks.co.uk /quest/en-gb/dept_72.html (970 words)

	Papillon Book at Shop Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		once one sees this, one can only enjoy Papillon as a work of fiction, but as it claims to be a bigraphical work i am unprepared to read it as a work of fiction.
		one has to admire papillon for making money out of his punishment for murder, but the difference between fact and fiction here make his character all the more extravagent, fictional itself and therefore void of my sympathy.
		While reading Papillon, you find yourself transported into his world, like your hovering above, watching and feeling everything that is happening, as though it was real to you.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/0586034862/4 (597 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Papillon -- Franklin J. Schaffner - DVD - Wide Screen
		Steve McQueen plays the pugnacious Charriere (known as "Papillon," or "butterfly," because of a prominent tatoo), incarcerated--wrongly, he claims--for murdering a pimp.
		He save the life of fellow convict Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman), a counterfeiter who will later show his gratitude by helping Charriere in his many escape attempts, and by smuggling food to Charriere when the latter is put in solitary confinement.
		The Papillon in the book was clearly a rogue who loved a good time, laughed a lot, and could get tough, but McQueen, although charsimatic in his own way, just isn't that guy and I never believe him for a minute.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?wrk=3619871 (869 words)

	BiggerBooks.com — Discount Bookstore. Bestsellers, New Books, Used Books and Textbooks
		Synopsis Henri Charriere, called "Papillon, for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 for a murder he did not commit.
		After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, "Papillon was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped -- that was, until "Papillon.
		In 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape, Charriere had his astonishing autobiography, "Papillon, published in France to instant acclaim -- a worldwide bestseller describing the gripping, shocking odyssey of the author's imprisonment and escape over a greuling decade.
	www.biggerbooks.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0060934794&referrer=bbys (151 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Papillon at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"Papillon" tells the story of an 'innocent' Frenchman convicted of murder during the 1930s and sentenced to serve his time in the prisons and work camps of French Guyana, in South America.
		Once there, Papillon (McQueen) is determined to not only survive the hostile conditions, but escape.
		"Papillon" was one of his last scripts, based on the autobiography by Henri Charriere.
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-6EC6-44B3E42-391B6860-prod6 (428 words)

	papillon - Britannica Concise
		papillon - breed of toy dog known from the 16th century, when it was called a dwarf spaniel.
		A fashionable dog, it was favoured by Madame de Pompadour and Marie Antoinette, and it appeared in paintings by some of the Old Masters.
		The name papillon (French: butterfly”;) was given to the breed in the late 19th century, when a variety with large, flaring ears resembling the wings of a butterfly came into...
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9374521 (424 words)

	Essential Steve McQueen Collection [7 Discs] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although it's overly exhaustive as it catalogues its protagonist's many attempts to regain his freedom, Papillon remains the mother, or at least the master, of all prison-escape flicks.
		Less of a straight-up procedural than such heirs to the throne as Escape From Alcatraz, the film tempers its unashamedly psychological approach (dream sequences, tests of will, and triumph-of-the-downtrodden hokum) with enough gritty realism (knife fights, guillotines, malaria, and leprous smugglers) to appease those who want their depravity served up extra stark.
		Escape-film vet Steve McQueen showcases his range both physically and mentally as his character seems to age forward and backward and go in and out of sanity depending on the barbarity of his method of incarceration at any given time.
	www.outpost.com /template/amg/44345 (399 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : At Leisure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Paris, June 27: A 104-year-old convicted killer has reopened the debate over Papillon, the inmate of a notorious French prison in the Caribbean, by claiming that he was the real model for the character.
		Published in 1969, Henri Charrière’s supposed autobiography sold millions and was turned into a Hollywood film classic, Papillon, starring Steve McQueen as the author and Dustin Hoffman as a fellow-escaper.
		Brunier’s claims have prompted French newspapers to speculate the real Papillon may be an old lag seeing out his days in a home for the elderly near Paris.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050628/asp/atleisure/story_4924286.asp (332 words)

	Papillon
		Summary: Franklin J Schaffner's Papillon is quite possibly the definitive prison escape drama.
		Based on Henri Charrière' s heavily fictionalised "autobiography", the film's timeless themes of man's insatiable desire for freedom and the indomitability of the human spirit are thankfully not dependent for their impact on the source material's veracity.
		Dalton Trumbo's liberal-minded screenplay echoes the themes of his earlier script for Spartacus, and Schaffner's innate gift for epic cinema (this was made just two years after his great war biography Patton) is fully equal to the task of realising it on screen.
	homepage.mac.com /childlost/details/page358.html (365 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Emily Brontë (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As far as diary material goes, just four brief texts – two “diary papers” (1834, 1837) and two “birthday papers” (1841, 1845) – exist, and while these are the closest one comes to autobiography in Brontë they remain uninformative, fugitive pieces.
		At Brussels, that silence was disrupted by Brontë's nine remarkable (extant) French devoirs, fierce essays produced as formal exercises in French composition for her tutor Constantin Heger, written during six months in 1842.
		These essays are trenchant critiques of Victorian pieties, and turn an ironic eye on proprieties such as filial love (“L'Amour Filial”), providential creation (”Le Papillon”), politeness (“Le Chat”) and civilisation (“Le Palais de la Mort”).
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=583 (2146 words)

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		The book is an autobiography of the author, who had the nick name Papillon (butterfly in French).
		He begins the story as a man wrongly accused of killing a pimp; he is sentenced to life of hard labor.
		The descriptions of the characters and the surroundings is wonderful, I picked up this book and when it was not in my hand I thought about Papillon and what was happening to in the book.
	www.msu.edu /user/whitmane (3553 words)

	Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Not just any dog-- I would be a papillon.
		A papillon is a small dog, but don’t underestimate them, because they can run very fast.
		I would be a papillon because they’re nice and lovable.
	www.promotega.org /uga05055/authors (882 words)

	Papillon -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The name papillon (French: butterfly”;) was given to the breed in the late 19th century, when a variety with large, flaring ears resembling the wings of a...
		French criminal and prisoner in French Guiana who described a lively career of imprisonments, adventures, and escapes in an autobiography, Papillon (1969).
		Papillon, owned by American Betty Maxwell Moran, landed a great Irish gamble in the 2000 English Grand National.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9312894?tocId=9312894 (429 words)

	Papillon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The autobiography of Henri Charrière, one of the few people to successfully escape from the notorious French penal colony of Devil's Island, served as the basis for this film, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.
		Steve McQueen plays the pugnacious Charrière (known as "Papillon," or "butterfly," because of a prominent tatoo), incarcerated -- wrongly, he claims -- for murdering a pimp.
		He saves the life of fellow convict Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman), a counterfeiter who will later show his gratitude by helping Charrière in his many escape attempts, and by smuggling food to Charrière when the latter is put in solitary confinement.
	theoscarsite.com /pictures1973/papillon.htm (210 words)

	ePier - PAPILLON by Henri Charriere, 1970, Escape from Devils Island
		PAPILLON by Henri Charriere, 1970, Escape from Devils Island
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		True adventures of Henri Charriere called Papillon in the under underworld because of his butterfly tatoo.
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		Hanri Charriere called as Papillon for the butterfly tattoo on his chest.
		It’s the astonishing autobiography of Papillon published in French.
		After reading this great autobiography, I did a Google search to find out whether any movies were made based on this novel.
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