Lucien Adam was Secretary at this meeting, and read a paper on "Fusang, of the Chinese Discovery of America.
"[2] Adam was one of the first to give the "substratist" theory of the origins of creole languages in general terms.
[3] In the 1882 a book was published by a French Seminary student, Jean Parisot, that claimed to be the grammar and other material of the hitherto undocumented Taensa language spoken by a people of Louisiana.
[4] The Grammaire et vocabulaire de la langue Taensa, avec textes traduits et commentés par J.-D. Haumonté, Parisot, L. Adam was published in 1882 in Paris and caused a stir among linguists.
Later, expert in American linguistics became increasingly convinced that the work was a hoax, but Adam was slow to withdraw his support.