Binot Paulmier de Gonneville

De Courtonne's claims struck a chord at a time when French patriotism was offended at the success of the Dutch and the English in making new discoveries in the South Pacific.

Based on D'Avezac weak and never proved theory, others proposed São Francisco do Sul, in the state of Santa Catarina.

[8][2][9][4] Some recent scholars have argued that Gonneville and his story were probably invented by Jean Paulmier de Courtonne,[10] though others are uncertain of this argument.

It is a fiction based on the story of Binot Paulmier de Gonnevile who talks about the arrival of the first “French” in Brazil in 1504 and the first “Brazilian” in France.

There we find navigation, storms, the clash of cultures between Europeans and indigenous peoples, cannibalism, piracy, a naval battle, a shipwreck...