Wednesday 18 April 2018 at 18:28
Benjamin Breen on the remarkable story of George Psalmanazar, the mysterious Frenchman who successfully posed as a native of Formosa (now modern Taiwan) and gave birth to a meticulously fabricated culture with bizarre customs, exotic fashions, and its own invented language.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/04/18/made-in-taiwan-how-a-frenchman-fooled-18th-century-london/