How A Blond, Blue-Eyed Frenchman Fooled Europe Into Thinking He Was Taiwanese
George Psalmanazar was a French Caucasian who faked his way into an easy living by pretending to be from Taiwan. What does his success, even after he was exposed, say about human gullibility? Wikimedia Commons In the first years of the 1700s , an alien man from the unheard - of terra firma of Formosa necessitate British society by storm . He wore odd wearing apparel and ofttimes perform strange religious ritual ....