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For the first time, a work by an 18th-century French historian has been published in Ukrainian (there are no translations into any other Slavic languages) - the first Western European work devoted entirely to the history of Ukraine. The author's sincere sympathy for Ukraine and admiration for the Cossacks' heroic struggle for freedom are evident from the pages of the book. Despite his mistakes, prejudices, and admiration for the power of the empire against which the Cossacks fought, and for the cult of Catherine II, J.-B. Scherer's generalisations sound quite modern: «This people, whose memory is full of memories of their ancestors, threw off the yoke, — and this is what they do not want to forgive them.