“Papillon.” author of the famous best-seller portraying life in the French penal colonies before the war is to be commemorated by 200 trees planted in his name in Israel. He died last year in South America. Papillon’s widow, Mme. Rita Charier (nee Ben-Simon) has contributed 2000 francs to the Jewish National Fund’s Paris office for the planting of the trees in the Ben-Shemen forest near Jerusalem. A plaque will bear Papillon’s real name: Henri Charrier.
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