Ile des pingouins

<p><i>Penguin Island</i>, published by <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anatole-france">Anatole France</a> in 1908, is a comic novel that satirizes the history of France, from its prehistory to the author’s vision of a distant future.</p> <p>After setting out on a storm-tossed voyage of evangelization, the myopic St. Maël finds himself on an island populated by penguins. Mistaking them to be humans, Maël baptizes them—touching off a dispute in Heaven and ushering the Penguin nation into history.</p>