MERCIER, L'Homme sauvage, 1767

Dutch edition published the same year than the original Parisian edition.
A work which caused a sensation upon its release, taking up the ideas of Rousseau, this novel is in line with the myth of the Good Savage.
Driven by the Spanish invasion, an Indian takes refuge in an unknown valley in South America with his two young children. He raises them in the bosom of good nature, in innocence and virtue, and they all live happily until they welcome into their health a young European who brings into this Eden, like the serpent of Genesis, the vices of civilization.