Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc
Marie- Angélique Memmie LeBlanc (* 1712, † December 15, 1775 in Paris) was a 1731 discovered so-called "wolf child" who may be part of the Native American tribe of the Fox.
Memmie LeBlanc was discovered in September 1731 in the forests of Songy in Chalons-en -Champagne. The approximately nine -year-old girl is said to have learned to speak French and given a name for himself, according to the municipality of Saint - Memmie. It was first seen in company with a second girl who was killed before his arrest in an accident. She died as a pension recipient of the Queen of France.
Julien Offray de La Mettrie repeated in 1748 in his work The human machine the rumor that she should have eaten her companion. Linnaeus took the girl as another variation of a "wild man" ( Homo ferus ) in the 12th edition of Systema Naturae in which he described there as " Puella Camp Anica " ( Champagnisches girls).
Further Reading
Primary literature
- Charles -Marie de la Condamine: Histoire d'une jeune fille sauvage dans les bois trouvée à l' âge de dix ans. Paris 1755 full text.
- An Account of a savage girl, caught wild in the woods of champagne. Translated from the French of Madame H -T. With a preface, Containing several Particulars omitted in the original account. Edinburgh 1768 Online.
Secondary literature
- Serge Aroles: Marie- Angélique: survie et d'une enfant perdue resurection dix années en forêt. Terre- éd. 2004, ISBN 2-915587-01-9.
- Julia Douthwaite: Rewriting the Savage: The Extraordinary Fictions of the "Wild Girl of Champagne". In: Eighteenth - Century Studies. Volume 28, Number 2, 1994-1995, pp. 163-192, JSTOR.
- Marie- Angélique Leblanc: Monstrous Femininity. In: Julia V. Douthwaite: The wild girl, natural one, and the monster: dangerous experiments in the Age of Enlightenment. University of Chicago Press, 2002, ISBN 0226160564, pp. 29-53.
- Wolf Child
- Developmental Psychology (case study )
- Frenchman
- Born in 1712
- Died in 1775
- Woman