- Gabriel de Foigny
Gabriel de Foigny ("ca" 1630-1692) is the author of an important
utopia , "La Terre Australe connue", 1676.Life
All we know about Foigny, including his identity (the book was printed without his name), is based exclusively on the second edition of
Pierre Bayle 's "Dictionnaire historique et critique " (1701, under "Sadeur").In English
* Gabriel de Foigny. "The Southern Land, Known" (La Terre Australe connue, 1676). Trans. and ed. David Fausett. Syracuse UP, 1993
Literature
*
Everett F. Bleiler . [http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/reviews_pages/r63.htm#A63 French Voyages into Imaginary Lands] , in: Science Fiction Studies # 63 = Volume 21, Part 2 = July 1994Links
* [http://colet.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/BAYLE.sh?MILESTONE=sadeur&PAGEIDENT= Dictionnaire historique et critique] by Pierre Bayle
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