''The Southern Land, Known'' (french: Les aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la découverte et le voyage de la terre Australe) is a book authored by

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 ...

in 1676. The story is about ''Jacques Sadeur'', from his birth to the departures from terre Australe. In this book, Foigny utilizes Utopia to describe an egalitarian society without government and people without the need of religion.

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