[1] Maturette was born in France and was arrested in 1932 when he was seventeen for the murder of a taxi cab driver.
[2] In early 1933, Maturette was sent to the penal colony in French Guiana where he met Charrière and Joanes Clousiot, with whom he would eventually escape.
[5][6][7] Eventually, they were all recaptured in Colombia, and were returned to French authorities who sentenced them to two years solitary confinement.
[2] Charrière survived solitary confinement and successfully escaped from Devil's Island on a bag of coconuts, while Maturette stayed in Royale working in the hospital.
[8] In the 2017 film adaptation of the same name, directed by Michael Noer, Maturette (played by Joel Basman) is shot by Colombian policemen after having escaped to a native village.