| Birth: | Nov. 27, 1889
Demi-Quartier, France | | Death: | Jan., 1962
Nueva Esparta, Venezuela | 
Devil's Island Escapee, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Holder of the Croix De Guerre. He was a doctor in Marseille, France who was charged in 1925 of the murder of Jacques Rumčbe who was an accountant and collector of funds. Bougrat was sentenced to life imprisonment, a sentence commuted to 25 years in prison because the man was awarded the Legion of Honor during the Great War. He was sent to prison on Devil's Island. In October 1928 he escaped from it with two other convicts. The other convicts were returned to the prison, but the government of Venezuela refused to return Dr. Bougrat. Until his death in 1962, he devoted his life to the care of the poor of Venezuela.
Inscription:
Homenaje del pueblo agradecido
a la memoria del medico francés
Dr. Pierre Bougrat
quien hallo en esta tierra un
remanso de paz y a su afecto
con el bien a través del noble
ejercicio de su profesión
1890 — 1962
Translation:
Homage of the grateful people
to the memory of French doctor
Dr. Pierre Bougrat
who found in this land
a haven of peace and affected us
with good through the noble
exercise of his profession.
Note: Per Associated Press, he was buried between January 8 to 12 as news reports dated January 12 read: Several hundred neighbors gathered this week to bury the man. | | | Burial:
Cementerio de Juangriego
Juan Griego
Nueva Esparta, Venezuela |
Created by: J.Sullivan
Record added: Dec 23, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 82308368 |
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