<sod>{{Quote box|class = letterhead||tstyle = text-align: right;|''The first French effort to colonise Guiana, in 1763, failed utterly when tropical diseases and climate killed all but 2,000 of the initial 12,000 settlers. During its existence, France transported approximately 56,000 prisoners to Devil's Island. Fewer than 10% survived their sentence.''<ref name="Marshall2">{{cite book|last=Marshall|first=Bill|title=France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History|year=2005|publisher=ABC-CLIO, Inc.|location=Santa Barbara, CA|isbn=1-85109-411-3|pages=372–373|url=https://books.google.com/?id=jfq5Tp0nq98C}}</ref>}}}}{{refn|group="note"|[[French Guiana]], while less extensive and populous, is an [[overseas department]] and [[overseas region|region]] of [[France]].|align=center|width=70%|qalign=center|{{hidden end}}|salign=right|author=''Bill Marshall''|border=0px}}<eod>
<sod>{{Quote box|class = letterhead||''The first French effort to colonise Guiana, in 1763, failed utterly when tropical diseases and climate killed all but 2,000 of the initial 12,000 settlers. During its existence, France transported approximately 56,000 prisoners to Devil's Island. Fewer than 10% survived their sentence.''<ref name="Marshall2">{{cite book|last=Marshall|first=Bill|title=France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History|year=2005|publisher=ABC-CLIO, Inc.|location=Santa Barbara, CA|isbn=1-85109-411-3|pages=372–373|url=https://books.google.com/?id=jfq5Tp0nq98C}}</ref>}}}}{{refn|group="note"|[[French Guiana]], while less extensive and populous, is an [[overseas department]] and [[overseas region|region]] of [[France]].|align=center|width=70%|qalign=center|{{hidden end}}|salign=right|author=''Bill Marshall''}}<eod>