Le Miroir des événemens actuels, ou la Belle au plus offrant (The Looking Glass of Actuality, or Beauty to the Highest Bidder) is a political parable about scientific progress published in 1790 by featuring an inventor named "Wak-wik-vauk-an-son-frankésteïn",Original text on Gallica. an apparent reference to Jacques de Vaucanson, then abridged as , who creates a life-sized automaton.
It has been suggested that Nogaret's story may have influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with a number of similarities between the two stories. However, there is no evidence Shelley had read it.
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