Louis Le Golif

For a long time accepted by lovers of literature, this presentation was from the beginning rejected by historians and specialists of naval research as a forgery.

After a number of other buccaneering conquests alongside Laurens de Graaf, Roc Brasiliano, and others (and after many sexual escapades), Golif retires a rich man to Brittany.

[2] Analysts noted in the narrative an abundance of clichés, twists, and turns that were difficult to believe, and the reuse of elements from the true biographies of other sailors such as Duguay-Trouin or Forbin.

The "manuscript" was in fact an artificially aged notebook on which the authors had written with pen and ink in a style imitating that of the seventeenth century.

[6] In 2002, fifty years after the first edition, the manuscript was entrusted by its owners to the Musée de la Marine for its exhibition "Pirates!"