Jean-Christophe Roufen, a famous French writer, laureate of the Prix Goncourt, historian, diplomat, one of the founders of the Doctors Without Borders movement, wrote many books that have gained enormous popularity. Moritz August Benevsky - a handsome aristocrat, limping like Byron, in love and ardent like Casanova, risky like Francis Drake, Henry Morgan or Count Cagliostro, an obstinate man, deprived of an inheritance, dreaming of seas and oceans in a Polish village and in the casemate of the Peter and Paul Fortress , is the hero of Jean-Christophe Roufin's new novel, The Voyage of King Sable Around the World. It was not impossible for this adventurer: to rebel, escape, overcome thousands of miles by land and thousands of leagues by sea (France, Kamchatka, Japan, Formosa, America, Brazil), found a kingdom of equality and freedom on the beautiful island of Madagascar, reputed to be a paradise for pirates and slave traders, to become a king, professing the ideals of equality and freedom - all this was within his power. Novels have been written about Benyovsky, plays have been staged, and films have been made. His life was shrouded in mystery. And the essence of his personality remained a mystery. For the first time in Russian!