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 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][clarification needed] 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).
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- ^ "10 Famous Fake Antiques and the Suckers Who Bought Them". howstuffworks.com. 8 April 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
- ^ "The Pictographs of Emmanuel Domenech". museumofhoaxes.com. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
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