The World Tour of King Sable, Rufin Jean-Christophe

“- My friends,” exclaimed Benjamin Franklin, “allow me to say that, for the moment, your business is strictly incomprehensible. - We only ask to explain it to you, said Auguste. And besides, we crossed the Atlantic for that. - Well, go ahead. - It's a long story. - A very long story, added Aphanasie, his young wife, whom Franklin had not taken his eyes off. - It crosses many countries, it stages dramas and violent passions, it takes place among distant peoples whose cultures and languages are different from anything known in Europe... - No matter! On the contrary, you are piquing my interest... " How a young nobleman born in Central Europe, a contemporary of Voltaire and Casanova, found himself in Siberia then in China, to finally become king of Madagascar... Under the pen of Jean-Christophe Rufin, this authentic story takes on the scope and charm of an oriental tale, as the 18th century so loved them.