About Gabriel de Foigny
Lived 1630 – 1692 (aged 61–62). Gabriel de Foigny was a French writer.
Gabriel de Foigny (ca. 1630–1692), 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 (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"). 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. The Southern Land, Known (La Terre Australe connue, 1676). Trans. and ed. David Fausett. Syracuse UP, 1993
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Who was Gabriel de Foigny?
French writer (1630–1692)
When was Gabriel de Foigny born?
Gabriel de Foigny was born in 1630 in La Bouteille.
When did Gabriel de Foigny die?
Gabriel de Foigny died in 1692 in Savoy.
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Gabriel de Foigny was a writer.
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Gabriel de Foigny was French.
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