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CAYENNE. ILE DU SALUT. ILE ROYALE - Interesting...

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CAYENNE. ILE DU SALUT. ILE ROYALE - Interesting Correspondence of MAUPETIT, GENDARME à Pied successively in French Guiana (Cayenne), Ile Royale, Les Iles du Salut and Sinnamary - 9 Letters A.S. addressed to L'Abbé Schalten : ILE ROYALE 1864 ". We recently had the review of the Inspector General, I was proposed as Brigadier by Mr. Girard de la Charbonnière, Commander of the Gendarmerie and I like to believe that I was maintained by Mr. Barollet. - ILE ROYALE 1863 " for some time there has been talk of forming a maritime prison gendarmerie in Guyana... " - CAYENNE 1862 - ILE DU SALUT 1864 " We have nothing remarkable but colored wood with which to make pretty furniture..." - SINNAMARY 1865 - He asks that instead of granting him his resignation, he be ordered to transfer to the Gendarmerie de la Garde or the Garde de Paris... "