If the world were flat, the end of the earth would undoubtedly be French Guiana. A remote, jungle-shrouded patch on the northeast shoulder of South America, one-sixth the size of metropolitan France ...
CONDEMNED TO DEVIL’S ISLAND—Blair Niles—Harcourt Brace ($3.00). The Indictment. Every year France sends a dismal shipload of some 700 convicts to her penal colony in French Guiana —north of Brazil, ...
This year marks the 125th anniversary of Alfred Dreyfus’ arrival at Devil’s Island. On April 14, the former captain in the French army, found guilty of treason a few months earlier by a military ...