Histoire d'une jeune fille sauvage trouvée dans les bois à l'âge de dix ans

by active 1755 Mme. Hecquet, Charles-Marie de La Condamine

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HISTOIRE D'UNE JEUNE FILLE SAUVAGE,

0:32

HISTOIRE D'UNE JEUNE FILLE SAUVAGE.

1:21:44

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Quérard 4:52 identifies Mme. Hecquet and notes also attributed to C.-M. de La Condamine.

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Andrew Ward, Laurent Vogel, and the Feral Children web site at http://www.feralchildren.com (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

Release date

2006-11-28

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Wild men

About the authors

active 1755 Mme. Hecquet

Best known for publishing a vivid 1755 account of a so-called “wild girl” found in the French woods, this little-known French writer survives in literary history through a single fascinating book. Her work helped preserve one of the eighteenth century’s strangest and most debated life stories.

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Charles-Marie de La Condamine

1701–1774

An adventurous French scientist of the Enlightenment, he joined the landmark expedition to South America that helped measure the shape of the Earth. His writings also introduced many European readers to the Amazon, rubber, and quinine.

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