Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc
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Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc (1712 – 15 December 1775), also known as the Wild Child of Champagne, The Maid of Châlons and Wild Child of Songy, was a feral child.
Her story is known through separate accounts by writers of her time,most importantly Charles Marie La Condamine, as well as contemporary studies by Julia Douthwaite[1] and Serge Aroles.[2]
She survived outside of society for ten years between November 1721 and September 1731, longer than any other confirmed feral child,.[citation needed] After her entrance into society she succeeded in learning to read and write, also unique among feral children.[3]
She was found in the woods of Provence, in the village of Songy at the age of 19 years.
[edit] References
- ^ Douthwaite, Julia V. (2002). The wild girl, natural man, and the monster: dangerous experiments in the Age of Enlightenment. Chicago History of American Civilization Series. University of Chicago Press. p. 314. ISBN 9780226160566.
- ^ The biography of Marie-Angélique, with 30 facsimile of archives documents and shelfmarks of hundreds other archives hold in France Aroles, Serge (2004) (in fr). Marie-Angélique (Haut-Mississippi, 1712 - Paris, 1775). Survie et résurrection d'une enfant perdue dix années en forêt. ISBN 2 915587 019.
- ^ Concerning the mental deficiency of all other feral children (none of them could have learned to read and to write), first opportune critical approach based on archives : Serge Aroles, L'Enigme des enfants-loups (The Enigma of wolf-children), 2007. ISBN 2748339096.
