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"Général Alibée Féry (28 May 1818 - 1896) was a Haitian playwright, poet, and storyteller. Born in Jérémie, Féry was largely self-taught. He was the first person to tell stories of Uncle Bouqui and Ti Malice, characters who appear frequently in Haitian folklore. Selected works * Essais Littéraires (play) * Fils du Chasseur (story) * Les Bluettes (poems) * Les Echantillons (stories) * Les Esquisses (historical stories) References * Category:1818 births Category:1896 deaths Category:Folklorists Category:Haitian male poets Category:19th-century Haitian poets Category:19th-century Haitian dramatists and playwrights Category:Male dramatists and playwrights Category:19th-century male writers "
"La Martinière docked at Saint-Martin-de-Ré. The prison of Saint-Laurent-du- Maroni was the main penal colony in French Guiana for more than a century. Some of the buildings were restored in the early 1980s. History "Quartier Spécial" - Condemned men's block, St. Laurent-du-Maroni, 1954 (the guillotine stood at the spot where the photographer took the photo). On 22 November 1850, Napoleon III declared: "Six thousand condemned men in our prisons weigh heavily on our budget, becoming increasingly depraved and constantly menacing our society. I think it is possible to make the sentence of forced labour more effective, more moralising, less expensive and more humane by using it to further the progress of French colonisation." The first batch of prisoners left the Breton port of Brest for the Îles du Salut on 31 March 1852. The prison at St-Laurent-du-Maroni was established on the banks of the Maroni River on 21 February 1858. All the prisoners sent from France were taken there before being transferred to other prisons or camps. The town of Saint-Laurent- du-Maroni proper was founded on 16 March 1880; it was a penal town whose inhabitants were nearly all guards or liberated prisoners. The hospital was built in 1912, and the prison itself closed in 1946, the same year the whole colonial penal system was abolished. Life in the prison "Quartier - Disciplinaire", Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, 1954 The prison at Saint-Laurent was but a temporary stop for most prisoners. Only a small number of men ever stayed in Saint-Laurent for long, and they were nearly all employed in the penitentiary administration or were considered harmless and unlikely to try to escape. When a ship (such as La Loire or La Martinière) arrived from Saint- Martin-de-Ré, the first order of the day was to separate the "chevaux de retour" (literally "returned horses", but meaning the escaped prisoners) and the recidivists from the rest, to send them to the Îles du Salut, from whose shores escape was considered impossible. (A few, however, succeeded; most famously, Henri Charrière, who later wrote Papillon.) The new prisoners then stayed for a while in Saint-Laurent, where they were sorted into different camps or prisons. The ones considered to be shifty and eager to escape were sent to the islands along with the recidivists and ex-escapees. The least dangerous men, condemned to prison for petty offences, were offered jobs in the penitentiary administration. The prisoners were also separated by nationality, as there were special camps reserved for those from Indochina, and the Arabs often became guards. Since there was a hospital in Saint- Laurent, many prisoners faked illnesses to get sent there, where they had plenty of time to plot escapes (as experienced and written by, among others, Charrière). Since many prisoners worked in the hospital, this was not terribly hard to do. Those who were lucky enough to stay in Saint-Laurent were generally better treated than prisoners in other camps. Their work was simple, they were free to go wherever they wanted inside the prison, and were given better rations. See also * Devil's Island * René Belbenoit Bibliography * C'était le bagne, L'Express Magazine * Godefroy, Marion F., Bagnards; Chêne, 2002 Category:History of French Guiana Category:Buildings and structures in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni Category:Prisons in French Guiana "
"Sundance is a charter vessel owned by Capital Pleasure Boats and operating on the River Thames. Former names are Gay Enterprise and Solent Enterprise. History The vessel was built in 1971 for the Gosport Ferry service by James and Stone of Brightlingsea, primarily for cruising Portsmouth Harbour and the Solent. Originally called Gay Enterprise, the name was changed in the winter of 1979, during her standby ferry duties, to Solent Enterprise. It had a similar design to the company's two 1966 Queens (Portsmouth Queen and Gosport Queen) but the interior was more comfortable because of its different duty. It was painted in later years in a blue livery with a large Solent Enterprise banner on its side barriers. In its later years of service, it was regularly used on ferry duties between Gosport and Portsmouth when either of the Queens were out of service. In 2001, Gosport Ferry Company purchased a new ferry, the Spirit of Gosport, but the company also wanted to replace the Solent Enterprise in its cruising role. Both Queens therefore stayed on, and the Spirit of Gosport only had a few ferry duties in its first few months. In 2005, another new vessel was purchased, Spirit of Portsmouth. This was fitted out with a covered top deck and a bar and to suit its cruise duties. This meant that Solent Enterprise was no longer required by the Gosport Ferry service and she was sold to Capital Pleasure Boats in 2005. Her new owners renamed her Sundance and she operated on the River Thames in London as a charter vessel catering for parties, corporate entertainment, weddings and other functions. Later, she was sold again and moved to Copenhagen to be used as a floating cafe. However, in the early hours of the morning of 11 February 2016, a fire broke out on board completely engulfing the top deck and left her badly damaged. Sundance was repaired and turned back into a houseboat but remains in Copenhagen today under new ownership. External links * Sundance Category:Gosport Ferry Category:1971 ships "