Bagne of the French Guiana

There is habit to speak only about one Bagne of the French Guyana (where “Guianese bagne”), but it is composed of several camps and penitentiaries:

Bagne of Cayenne
Bagne of the Islands of the Hello
Bagne de Mana (or bagne of the women)
Bagne of Saint-Laurent-of-Maroni the:

Camp of the transportation of Saint-Laurent-of-Maroni the
Camp of the relegation of Saint-Jean-of-Maroni the (locality)

Camp Charvein
Camp Cracks Eel (more known like Bagne of Annamites ) with Montsinéry-Tonnegrande
Camp of Hattes
Camp of the Islet Saint Louis
Camp of the Mountain of Money
Camp of Saint Augustin
Camp of Holy Anne
Camp of Holy Marguerite
Camp of Holy Marie
Camp of Saint Georges
Camp of Saint Jean
Camp of Saint Maurice
Camp of Saint Philippe
Camp of Saint Pierre
Camp of Sparouine
Camp of the Madagascans
Camp of Organabo
Camp Godebert
Camp Forest the
Camp Jump of the Tiger
New Camp
Penitentiary of the Islet the Mother
Penitentiary of Kourou (Kourou)

Several floating penitentiaries were off Cayenne and Kourou and named the Dream , Grumbling the and the Trout .

History of the Guianese bagne

July 1795, the revolutionists Billaud-Game preserve and Collot d' Herbois are off-set in Guyana.
1797,16 other revolutionists are off-set.
March 12th, 1898, the captain Dreyfus arrives at the bagne, transferred since the Devil's Island.
June 1899, departure of Dreyfus for France (Revision of the lawsuit).
In 1923, the journalist Albert London goes to the bagne of Cayenne. Describing the horrors of what he sees, its report causes of strong reactions in the opinion but also within the authorities for the improvement of the detention conditions.
on September 14th, 1924, London writes in Small Parisian the that the bagne is removed, but reality is very different: the dungeon is removed, the sorrows of reduced cells, improved food, of the wages are granted and the convicts are from now on separate according to the gravity of their sorrow, but the bagne always exists.
June 17th, 1938, Order in Council ordering the suppression of the deportation in Guyana.
August 17th, 1946, hundred forty-five prisoners are repatriated of Guyana with Marseilles.

Famous prisoners

Henri Charrière says Papillon
Charles Brunier
Alfred Dreyfus
Guillaume Seznec
Benjamin Ullmo
Clément Duval, anarchist of the band with Bonnot
Paul Roussenq, known as Inco

Anecdotes

The expression “the skittle” in the military Jargon would come owing to the fact that the convicts authorized to return in metropolis made the return voyage on a boat called the Skittle . By extension, it passed in the language of called to the National service to express the idea of the return to the normal civil life.

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