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Penguin Island is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize-winning French author Anatole France . The novel tells of an old Briton monk who sails to an island, his poor eyesight has him baptizing penguins rather than people . Penguin Island is a hilarious, serious satire on the history of France, mainly, with a spectacular opening section on the foundation of Christianity, and later followed with a somewhat bitter, but brilliant satire on the nature of French democracy . It is about a fictitious island, inhabited by great auks, that existed off the northern coast of Europe . The history begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk lands on the island and perceives the upright, unafraid auks as a sort of pre-Christian society of noble pagans . Mostly blind from reflections from the polar ice and somewhat deaf from the roar of the sea, having mistaken the animals for humans, he baptizes them . This causes a problem for The Lord, who normally only allows humans to be baptized . After consulting with saints and theologians in Heaven, He resolves the dilemma by converting the baptized birds to humans with only a few physical traces of their ornithological origin, and giving them each a soul .