L' France, Anatole 1844-1924 creator text utu 2005 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "L'Île des Pingouins" by Anatole France is a historical novel published in 1908. When a near-sighted saint accidentally baptizes penguins instead of humans, God transforms them into people, creating a new civilization. France chronicles their entire history—from ancient times through the future—as a satirical mirror of French history itself. The narrative includes a pointed allegory of the Dreyfus Affair and skewers religious hypocrisy, political corruption, and social follies. This darkly comic tale presents human civilization as an endless cycle of ambition, destruction, and regression. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_Island_(novel) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27%C3%8Ele_des_Pingouins Release date is 2005-07-01 Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Tonya Allen, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Original publication data not identified Satire Political fiction, French French fiction -- 20th century Penguins -- Fiction Civilization, Western -- Fiction France -- Civilization -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8524 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8524 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133223.0 8524