author
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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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
About the author
Marie-Catherine Hecquet, also known as Marie-Catherine Hommasel-Hecquet, was a French author born on June 12, 1686, and died on July 8, 1764. Library and public-domain records identify her as a French woman of letters and biographical writer.
She is best known for Histoire d'une jeune fille sauvage trouvée dans les bois à l'âge de dix ans, published in 1755. The book tells the story of a young wild girl discovered in Champagne and has also been linked in some records with Charles-Marie de La Condamine, so modern catalogs sometimes reflect shared or uncertain attribution.
Very little easy-to-confirm biographical detail survives beyond her dates, name variants, and authorship record. No suitable verified portrait was found from the pages reviewed, so a profile image is not included here.