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Jean-Luc Chappey


Edited by Jean-Luc Chappey

Jean-Luc Chappey
Usages de l'enfant sauvage
Uses of the wild child
We are familiar with the wild boy from Aveyron, whom Truffaut brought to life in his film of 1970, and with other wild children too. But why do they crop up so regularly in nineteenth-century human science writing, and beyond?