The Third Notebook, The First Cavale Summary and Analysis

In "Escape from the Hospital," Papillion agrees to pay a man named Jesus to help him escape along with another prisoner named Clousiot though several others decide the plan is too risky and decline Papillion's offer to join them. They have one problem related to the guards and convince another younger man who has a very feminine appearance to seduce a guard. The young man, Maturette, agrees on the condition that they take him along. Clousiot breaks his leg jumping over the wall but they make it to the boat and leave with Jesus and another man. Papillion realizes that the boat is not sufficient to carry them to sea. They encounter a man named the Masked Breton who gives them directions to the Ile aux Pigeons, a leper's colony. In...