Gabriel de Foigny

Gabriel de Foigny, born in Picardy, is the author of an important utopia, The [Southern Land, Known], 1676.

Life

All that is known about Foigny, including his identity, is based exclusively on the second edition of Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique [et critique]. He was born in Lorraine and became a Franciscan, but left the order. He moved near Geneva, now as a Protestant, and made a living as a tutor. The Southern Land, Known was printed at Geneva, as if from Vannes.

In English

Gabriel de Foigny. Les aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans [la découverte et le voyage de la terre Australe|The Southern Land, Known]. Trans. and ed. David Fausett. Syracuse UP, 1993