Bagne of New Caledonia
Of 1864 with 1924 on the island of Nou, near to Noumea, in New Caledonia, the prison authorities held a Bagne where many French prisoners of metropolis (approximately 21 were off-set; 000).
Divided into four classes (according to their judgment), these off-set could hope to be released without to obtain return in metropolis.
Communards with the News
Starting from 1872 and until the Amnesty S of 1880, the insurrectionists of the Commune of Paris were off-set in New Caledonia with the bagne, on the island of Nou for the convicts, on the peninsula of Ducos for the off-set in strengthened enclosure , or in the island of the Pines for the simple off-set of which some will be authorized to remain in Noumea. One sent also the insurrectionists of the revolt kabyle of 1871, on the island of Pins.During the revolt of 1878, the deportees will be used by the colonial administration in the repression of the Kanak S (see Ataï).
Louise Michel, which obtained, during his deportation, a post of teacher in Noumea, is one of rare to be themselves interested in the culture kanak and to be opposed to the répression.
Whereas the Communards profited from an amnesty in 1880, the Kabyles of the Pacific finished, for the majority, their life in New Caledonia.
End of the bagne
The presence of the bagne is disputed little by little by the colonists who undergo the competition of the labor of the convicts but also of the prison authorities which monopolizes the best grounds. A new governor named in 1894, Paul Layer, declares himself against the “dirty water tap” which the transportation constitutes. It will be stopped in 1897, but the prisoners of the bagne will finish their life (in 1921 there, they were still 2 300).
Internal bond
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