Le livre des sauvages

Le livre des sauvages au point de vue de la civilization (transl. The book of savages from the perspective of the civilization) was a 19th-century hoax manuscript.[1]

The 165th page of Le livre des sauvages au point de vue de la civilization

The French missionary Emmanuel Domenech's work Manuscrit pictographique américain, précédé d'une notice sur l'idéographie des Peaux Rouges (Paris, 1860) was the result of an unintentional hoax.[2] The German orientalist Julius Petzholdt declared that the manuscript consisted only of scribbling and incoherent illustrations in a local German dialect. Domenech maintained the authenticity of the manuscript in a pamphlet entitled La vérité sur le livre des sauvages (1861), which drew forth a reply from Petzholdt, translated into French (by Philippe Van der Haeghen) under the title of Le livre des sauvages au point de vue de la civilization Française (Brussels, 1861).

References
  1. "10 Famous Fake Antiques and the Suckers Who Bought Them". howstuffworks.com. 8 April 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  2. "The Pictographs of Emmanuel Domenech". museumofhoaxes.com. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
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