Papillon is the greatest escape story of all time--and it's all true. This chronicles Henri Charri?¿re's life in gripping detail from his nine escape attempts from penal colonies in French Guyana to his sanctuary in Venezuela in 1945. Charri?¿re candidly and vividly portrays himself and his fellow prisoners, the horrors of confinement in an open cage, the nightmare of a dungeon that floods at high tide, and the hope that helped him survive.