Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952

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T Index abuse of prisoners, 60–61, 67–68 administration of penal colonies, 39–42, 48, 68–70; criticisms by, 147–48; criticisms of, 101–2, 111–16; failures of, 150–51; governors in, 62, 67, 75, 78, 103, 107–8, 151; investigations into, 111–16; relationship between medical corps and, 87–88, 97–100, 111–12 Ageron, C. R., 6 agricultural colonies, 5 Albanel, Louis, 30–31 alcohol abuse among guards and wardens, 73–74 Algeria, 10 Alhoy, Maurice, 9 Allison-Booth, W. E., 134–36 Les Antilles, 11 Appert, Benjamin, 4, 9 Arendt, Hannah, 61 Ariane space program, xii Arnold, David, 92 Australia, xiii–xiv Aymard, Camille, 24, 26 Bagne (book), 59 bagnes, definition of, xi. See also penal colonies Bakhtin, Mikhail, 58 Barnes, Harry Elmer, 133 barracks, prisoner. See housing Batzler-Heim, George, 55 Bauche, Alexandre, 60 Baudrillard, Jean, 131, 145 Beebe, William, 132 Belbenoit, René, 48, 53, 55, 57, 133 Bentham, Jeremy, xiv, xv beriberi, 91 biographies and autobiographies of prisoners, 52 Blake, M. B., 137–40 Borgnis-Desbordes, General, 75, 78, 115–16 Bosourdy, Jacques François, 8 Boucon, Honorat, 148 Boudin, Jean, 16 Bougrat, Pierre, 130 Bourget, Inspector General, 77 Brazil, 136 Brest shipyard, 12, 62, 73 Brétignières de Courteilles, Louis Hermann, 3 Brouilhet, M. Francis, 109 Browning, Christopher, 81 Bullard, Alice, xii, 61 capital punishment, 113–14 Carco, Francis, 59 Carol, Jean, 47, 111 casiers judiciares, 23–24 categories of prisoners, 11–12, 43–44 cattle ranching, 105 causes of crime: pollution, 6; recividism and, 27–32; socioeconomic, 6, 27–32; theories on hereditary, 32–33 Charrière, Henri (“Papillon”), xi Chautemps, Emile, 147–48 Chevalier, Louis, 6 children: of guards, 70–72; as prisoners, 7 Choppin, M., 25–26 civil rights of prisoners, 36–37 Clairin, Emile, 92–93; criticisms of penal colony administration by, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114 closure of penal colonies, 148–49 clothing of prisoners, 94–95, 97 La colonisation et le bagne, 69 Communards, xii concessions, land, 103–6, 116 Condemned to Devil’s Island (Niles), 133 T Index  Conklin, Alice, 98 corporal punishment, xii, xv, 46–47, 60–61, 68–70 corruption among guards, 62–63 crime: demographic shifts and, 3; in dockyards, 2; human nature, cities, and, 28–32; petty, 33–34, 36–38; public interest in, 121–24; rate in France, 2–3, 20, 23–24; recidivism and, 4, 5; rural, 3–4, 28; social conditions and, 6, 27–32; urban, 3, 6, 28–32 criticisms of penal colonization, 101–2, 111–16, 152–53; by government officials, 147–48. See also newspaper accounts of penal colonies crowd psychology, 30 Cuba, 10 Cuche, Paul, 26–27 Da Costa, Gaston, 60 daily routines, prisoners’, 45–46 Danjou, Henri, 141–42 Darquitian, V., 51 Davis, Hassoldt, 59, 144 de Beaumont, Gustave, 4 de Choiseul, Duc, 10 de la Ravadière, Daniel, 10 de la Richerie, Governor, 67 de la Sarthe, Almire Lepelletier, 9 Delvincourt, Augustin, 28, 104 de Mackau, Armand, 10 Demetz, Frédéric, 5 Denys, H., 113 Desportes, F., 35 de Tocqueville, Alexis, 4 Devil’s Island, 12, 131–32, 143–44, 145, 173n55 d’Haussonville, Othenin, 23 Dhur, Jacques, 123–24 Dieudonné, Eugene, 128–31 Dislère, Paul, 102, 116, 117 Dominican Republic, 10 dossiers, prisoner, 42–45 Dreyfus, Alfred, 12, 131–32 du Barrière, Pallu, 78, 103, 107–8 Duprat, G. L., 28–29, 30 Duvigneau, A., 93 dysentery, 93–94 École du Pharo, 85 employment of prisoners: in private homes, 49–50, 110–12; in public works projects, 77–78, 109–10 escape from penal colonies, 57, 77–79, 129–31 Espeut, Inspector General, 114 Etienne, E., 113 execution of prisoners, xv, 113 failures of penal colonization, 150–51 fait divers, 122, 128, 144 faked illnesses, 47–48 families: of guards, 70–73; of prisoners, 56–57, 103–4 farms, penitentiary, 18 Faucher, Léon, 4 Faure, Félix, 108 Feillet, Paul, 118 female prisoners, 17 Féré, Charles, 33 Ferrus, Guillaume, 6 Ferry, Jules, 108 fictional stories about penal colonies, 133–35 fighting within penal colonies, 53–54 fin de siècle culture, 20, 21–22, 29–30, 32, 33; debate over penal colonization in, 103; journalism in, 122–23; reform of penal colonies and, 117–18 food and nutrition in penal camps, 90–92, 127–28 Forster, Colin, xiv Foucault, Michel, xii–xiii, xv, xvi, 42, 47, 58, 83 Fouillée, Alfred, 28 France, Anatole, 131 Frégier, Honoré-Antoine, 6 French Guiana, xi...