Devil’s Island is now a tourist attraction, while the Île Royale now serves as a tracking station for the European Space Agency’s rocket launch site at Kourou. The Dreyfus Affair WHEN PAPILLON IS FINALLY SENT to the Île du Diable, the previously escape-proof island reserved for political prisoners, he draws strength from the memory of Alfred Dreyfus, the most famous inmate in the penal colony’s long history.
