Robert Michel: Drawing Devil’s Island
Depictions of life in France's harsh penal colony
The penal colony of Cayenne, widely known as Devil’s Island in French Guiana, operated as a notorious French prison for a century beginning in 1852. During its grim history, over 80,000 individuals w…
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