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JoseBalow

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5. After escaping Devil's Island, Henri Charriere, author of 'Papillon'

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Wed Apr 16, 2025, 05:12 PM

Apr 16

describes in his subsequent 1972 autobiography "Banco," renting a house and trying to tunnel under a street and into a bank while living on the run in Venezuela.

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