Devil's Island

one of a group of French islands off the coast of French Guiana: site of a former penal colony

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An island in the Caribbean Sea off French Guiana. A French penal colony after the 1850s, it was used mainly for political prisoners, including Alfred Dreyfus (sequestered 1894-1899).

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