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Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc (born 1712 Wisconsin, French Louisiana; died 1775 Paris, France) was a famous feral child of the 18th century in France who was known as The Wild Girl of Champagne, The Maid of Châlons, or The Wild Child of Songy. Her case is more controversial than that of some other feral children because a few prominent modern-day scholars have regarded it as either wholly or partly fictional.〔Lucien Malson, ''Wolf Children and the Problem of Human Nature: With the Complete Text of the Wild Boy of Aveyron'' (New York, Monthly Review Press, 1972), pp. 41–42.〕〔Julia V. Douthwaite, “Rewriting the Savage: The Extraordinary Fictions of ‘The Wild Girl of Champagne’”, ''Eighteenth-Century Studies'', vol. 28, no. 2 (Winter 1994–95), pp. 163–192.〕〔Julia V. Douthwaite, ''The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment'' (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002), pp. 29–53.〕 However, in 2004, the French surgeon-scholar Serge Aroles concluded it was authentic after spending ten years carrying out archival research into Marie-Angélique's life.〔''Marie-Angélique (Haut-Mississippi, 1712–Paris, 1775): Survie et résurrection d'une enfant perdue dix années en forêt'' (Bonneuil-sur-Marne, Terre Editions, 2004).〕 Aroles found evidence that Marie-Angélique had survived for ten years living wild in the forests of France, between the ages of nine and 19, before she was captured by villagers in Songy in Champagne in September 1731. He discovered that she had been born in 1712 as a Native American of the Meskwaki (or "Fox") people in what today is the Midwestern U.S. state of Wisconsin and that she died in Paris in 1775, aged 63. Aroles demonstrated also that she learned to read and write as an adult, thus making her unique among feral children. ==Contemporary accounts== The story of Marie-Angélique's life in the wild was publicised in the mid-18th century in both France and in Britain through a short pamphlet biography of her by the French writer Marie-Catherine Homassel Hecquet edited by the French scientist-explorer Charles-Marie de la Condamine and published in Paris in 1755.〔''Histoire d’une jeune fille sauvage trouvée dans les bois à l’âge de dix ans'' (Paris, no publisher, 1755).〕 This appeared in an English translation in 1768 as ''An Account of a Savage Girl, Caught Wild in the Woods of Champagne''.〔''An Account of a Savage Girl, Caught Wild in the Woods of Champagne. Translated from the French of Madam H–––t'' (William Robertson ) (Edinburgh, A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1768).〕 However, it was not error-free since it gave Marie-Angélique's age at the time of her capture as ten although it is now known to have been nineteen. Interviews with Marie-Angélique herself were recorded by the French royal courtier and diarist Charles-Philippe d’Albert, Duc de Luynes (1753),〔''Mémoires du duc de Luynes sur la cour de Louis XV (1735–1758)'' (17 vols, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1860–1865), vol. 13 (1753–1754), pp. 70–72.〕 the French poet Louis Racine (''c''. 1755)〔"Éclaircissement sur la fille sauvage dont il est parlé dans l’Épître II sur l’homme" (''c''. 1755) in ''Oeuvres de Louis Racine'' (6 vols, Paris, Le Normant, 1808), vol. 6, pp. 575–582.〕 and the Scottish philosopher-judge James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1765).〔''Antient Metaphysics'' (6 vols, Edinburgh and London, Bell and Bradshute and T. Cadell, 1779–1799), vol. 4 (1795), Appendix, pp. 403–408.〕 In addition, accounts of her were published by the French naturalists Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1759)〔''Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière'' (36 vols, Paris, de l'Imperie Royale, 1749–1788), vol. 4 (1759), p. 56.〕 and Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare (1768),〔"HOMME SAUVAGE" entry in ''Dictionnaire raisonné universel d’histoire naturelle'' (6 vols, Paris, Chez Lacombe, 1768), vol. 3, pp. 367–368.〕 Lord Monboddo (1768)〔Preface to ''An Account of a Savage Girl'', pp. iii–xvii.〕 (1773)〔''Of the Origin and Progress of Language'' (6 vols, Edinburgh and London, J. Balfour and T. Cadell, 1773–1792), vol. 1 (1773), pp. 188–189, 243, 262–263.〕 and (1795),〔''Antient Metaphysics'', vol. 4 (1795), pp. 33–34, 36, 403–408.〕 the Châlons lawyer-antiquary Claude-Rémy Buirette de Verrières (1788)〔''Annales historiques de la ville et comte-pairie de Châlons-sur-Marne'', premiere partie (Châlons, Chez Seneuze, 1788), pp. lxxvii–lxxxvi.〕 and the French historian Abel Hugo (1835).〔"Variétés: La fille sauvage" in ''France pittoresque'' (3 vols, Paris, Chez Delloye, 1835), vol. 2, pp. 222–223.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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