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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2 total

HISTOIRE D'UNE JEUNE FILLE SAUVAGE,

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HISTOIRE D'UNE JEUNE FILLE SAUVAGE.

1:21:44

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Description

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

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~1 hours (78K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

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

Nov 28, 2006

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19956

Subjects

Wild men GN

About the authors

active 1755 Mme. Hecquet

Known for a striking 1755 account of a feral child found in the woods of Champagne, this 18th-century French writer helped preserve one of the era’s most unusual true stories. Her work sits at the crossroads of biography, curiosity, and early anthropology.

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Charles-Marie de La Condamine

1701–1774

An adventurous French scientist of the Enlightenment, he helped settle a major debate about the shape of the Earth and turned his South American journey into one of the era’s great travel stories. His work blended mathematics, exploration, and vivid firsthand observation.

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