''Le livre des sauvages au point de vue de la civilization'' () was a 19th-century hoax manuscript. The French missionary

Emmanuel Domenech Emmanuel-Henri-Dieudonné Domenech (4 November 1825 – 7 September 1903) was a French ''abbé'', missionary and author. Life Domenech was born at Rochetaillée-sur-Saône (near Lyon), France. In the spring of 1846, before completing his seminar ...

's work ''Manuscrit pictographique américain, précédé d'une notice sur l'idéographie des Peaux Rouges'' (Paris, 1860) was the result of an unintentional hoax. 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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