Vie et vicissitudes de Mademoiselle Le Blanc, sauvageonne de Champagne

This contribution retraces the life of Marie-Angélique Le Blanc – the name given to a wild girl who was found in Champagne at the beginning of the eighteenth century – as told by Mrs Hecquet in Histoire d’une jeune fille sauvage trouvée dans les bois à l’âge de dix ans (1755). One may easily imagine how her contemporaries were fascinated by the case, both for the exceptional success of the girl’s acculturation and the difficulties to reconstitute her story.