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Guiana Space Center in Kourou right under the equator is near to the scene of famous movie "PAPILLON". I watched this jailbreak movie (1973) with DVD on 30 Nov 2012, for the first time. The stage of the movie is Salut islands such as Diable or Saint-Joseph in offing 10km of the Kourou. In the exile place most terrible in history in France, the most criminals were not able to go out of this island here for the reasons of the severe environment. Steve McQueen (Papillon) and Dustin Hoffman (Louis Degas) play the jailbreak based on the true story in this movie. The scene of the cell in particular was very heavy, and myself became depressed. "PAPILLON" in French means a butterfly or a moth in English, and it becomes the symbol of the tattoo of the chest of Steve McQueen. I return a topic and pinpoint the place of Guiana Space Center by Google Map. "Centre Spatial Guyanais" located in the Kourou northwestern part of the upper map is it. "Centre Spatial Guyanais" in French means "Guiana Space Center" in English. I thought here whether it was a national park at the beginning and searched the shoreline neighborhood, but here was "Guiana Space Center" in fact. Furthermore, I enlarged the point where the northwest buildings in the map crowded. I think that they are management buildings of the rockets.
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