Talk:Louis Dega

Louis Dega dying in quicksand??
I have just finished reading the book, Papillon and it has led me to notice an error in the description of Louis Degas death. The book describes Henri Charriere "making a break" in 1941 with a man named Sylvain, who is said to have died in quicksand but a few tens of feet from papillon only moments after landing ashore. Correct, so I deleted "He died in quicksand while trying to escape with Charriere in 1941." There is no mention of what happened to Dega in Charriere's novel. --144.132.108.118 04:36, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Possible Error
According to this article, "The two became best friends during their sentence," when in fact they seemed to be quite good friends before they were imprisoned. The movie differs from the book in this regard. Arundhati lejeune 09:52, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Italic text== Numerous Errors ==

"He had a younger brother named Joseph who worked as a guard on Devil's Island." - totally wrong. True, he was a pimp in Columbia.

"Clusiot" - correct spelling is Clousiot

"Joanes Clusiot" - I don't believe his first name is revealed in the book. Yes, it was revealed in the book, but the spelling was Jonas (in the English version).

"Fernandez Maturette" - I don't believe his first name is revealed in the book. Maturette's first name was Andre. It was revealed in the book when they were on Trinidad.

"Dega obtained gangrene and had his foot amputated." - totally wrong

"was recaptured in Santa Marta and spent two years in solitary confinement. He lived on a hut on Devil's Island and stayed on the island the rest of his life." - totally wrong. Please read the book before commenting, unless your sources are better than mine.--Bobogoat 16:50, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Papillon's "autobiography"?
Henri Charrière (a.k.a. "Papillon") was doubtless a felon, a murderer, a scoundrel and a liar. It has been sufficiently demonstrated that his successful novel "Papillon" was a fictional account, based mostly on other fellow inmates' experiences, so it is wrong (or highly debatable at best) that his book is still called "an autobiography" -- I'm moving the article Papillon (autobiography) to Papillon (novel). --AVM (talk) 19:39, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Is Louis DEGA his real name ?
1925 1926 L'AFFAIRE DES FAUX BONS DE LA DEFENSE

Le courtier arrêtéà Metz,est un reprh de jus. ticepariaim quidéserh pendent la guerre Commeles enquêteurs l'avaient supposé, le faussaire arrêtéà Metz, avec sonamie MarceLle Jaccard,ne senomme pasplus Crombinque Nadot, Duerosou Langlois. .............................................. Le pseudo-Crombin est en réalité

un repris de justice,Fernand Royers, néà Paris,Je 3 décembre 1881. Condamnédeux foispour volà la. rationde guerre,purgeait, ara'ften- trale de Poissy, une condamnation à dix-huitmois deprison.

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k606260j.texte — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.250.65.123 (talk) 13:58, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

I found french newspapers of 1929 with other names...

http://www.youscribe.com/catalogue/presse-et-revues/actualite-et-debat-de-societe/actualite-evenements/le-petit-journal-numero-24327-du-24-aout-1929-702651 http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6076759.texte.langFR Marseille, 23 août (dép. Petit Paris.) L'affaire des faux bons de la Défense nationale surgit à nouveau, la police ayant fin par découvrir, à Marseille, la fabrique de ces faux, recherchée depuis si longtemps. Le point de départ de cette affaire, on se le rappelle, avait été les arrestations, à Metz, de plusieurs individus qui écoulaient des faux bons de la Défense nationale. Mis en défiance par ce qui avait été publié par les journaux, un employé de banque de Parts faisait filer l'individu qui venait de lui présenter un bon manifestement faux, et cette filature fit arrêter cinq individus qui ne furent condamnés qu'en avril dernier.

Mais les malfaiteurs ne dirent, à aucun moment, quoi que ce fût sur l'origine des faux bons.

La police judiciaire et la sûreté générale furent donc obligés de continuer sans base leurs investigations. Elles ne devaient aboutir qu'hier.

La fabrique des faux bons est découverte et deux des principaux faussaires arrêtés.

MM. Benoist, directeur de la police judiciaire Nicolle, commissaire chef de la brigade spéciale Garanger et son fils, tous deux commissaires à la sûreté générale Martin, commissaire divisionnaire de la sûreté générale à Marseille., accompagnés d'inspecteurs, ont fait irruption au deuxième étage d'un immeuble, 98, rue Grignan, où se trouvait l'atelier remarquablement outillé.

Les deux faussaires étaient là, André Martini, dit Markin, né à Marseille le 4 janvier 1879, ancien baryton de l'Opéra de Marseille, devenu graveur lithographe et demeurant 106. boulevard Vauban. à Marseille et Lazard Intertaglia, né à Marseille In 18 février 1882, imprimeur lithographe, demeurant 95, rue Saint-Lambert, à Marseille.''

Henri Charriere wrote in "Papillon": '' ...on a arrêté un nommé Brioulet... Un mois après, Dega,le faussaire,le graveur et onze complices étaient arrêtés...''

Nothing about Brioulet in the french newspapers too;

FR. CH. A frenchman — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.90.17.64 (talk) 06:29, 20 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Does anybody know the point being made here? Swanny18 (talk) 23:46, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Date of death
Louis Dega's death was changed from "unknown" to "1945" on May 25th 2015‎ by a person with IP adress '104.156.240.140'. It was one of only six minor edits made by this person... and they offered no comment or reasoning or citation for how they came by that date. I can find no information online concerning Dega's manner or date of death. As a result, I've changed the date of death back to the original "unknown". If anyone has any solid sources... or even not so solid sources... anything really... please feel free to mention it. Bzzzing (talk) 20:09, 23 May 2018 (UTC)