In May 1910, as part of the Centennial celebrations of the May Revolution, French-born National Library Director Paul Groussac published Les Îles Malouines in French, subsidized by the Argentine state.

Groussac, a brilliant polemicist rather than an impartial archivist, crafted the foundational emotional narrative of Argentine victimhood: he omitted Vernet's piracy, ignored the Arana-Southern Treaty settlement, and invented the melodrama of an 'expelled civilian population'.

Groussac's book became the secular scripture of Argentine irredentism, converted from a literary polemic into compulsory school dogma decades later by political nationalists.