BORDELON, Laurent 1653-1730.

Laurent Bordelon (1653 in Bourges – 6 April 1730 in Paris), was a 17th/18th-century French abbot, doctor in theology, playwright, polygraph and progressive utopian. He wrote "a hundred hasty volumes or compilations on all subjects." == Works == === Satirical fantasies === In Mital; ou Aventures incroyables (1708), Bordelon satirizes unreliable works of science and history. The title character travels widely and discovers places where "fishes live on land, chickens wear hair instead of feathe…