The Iles du Salut (Salvation Islands) are a group of tropical islands best known for the notoriously brutal penal colony, establish in 1852.
They are Ile Royale, Île St Joseph, and the Ile du Diable, (infamous "Devil's Island" penal colony) - 1852 to 1953.
Surrounded by shark-infested waters they supported a convict population of almost 2,000. Today the islands are developed for tourism but for the prisoners
(the most famous was Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army officer falsely convicted of treason) it was "a true excursion into hell".
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