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active 1755 Mme. Hecquet
An 18th-century French writer, she is best remembered for the vivid little book that helped introduce readers to the remarkable story of the so-called Wild Girl of Champagne. Writing under the name “Madame H–––t,” she turned a real-life curiosity into one of the era’s memorable biographical narratives.
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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 Homassel-Hecquet was a French biographical author born in 1686 and died in 1764. She was married to the Abbeville merchant Jacques Homassel, and she published under the semi-anonymous name “Madame H–––t.”
She is chiefly associated with Histoire d'une jeune fille sauvage trouvée dans les bois à l'âge de dix ans (1755), a short work about Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc, often described as a feral child. That book is the reason library records and older catalogs often list her simply as “Mme. Hecquet” or “active 1755.”
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