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Aveyron (French) [avɛrɔ̃] n (Placename) a department of S France in Midi-Pyrénées region. Capital: Rodez. Pop.: 263 808 (1999). Area: 8771 sq. km (3421 sq. miles) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The flocks were mainly located in 2 departments (Pyrenees Atlantiques, n = 267/444, Aveyron n = 51/444). Her case had been reported in 1825 by Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, the physician who had educated the so-called Wild Child of Aveyron. If Sabu's Mowgli fired my seven-year-old imagination with ideas of joining the wilder world, Francois Truffaut's film The Wild Child introduced the more mature me to Victor of Aveyron and a new, completely convincing vision of a child, seemingly unmarked by the human world, surviving successfully alone. |
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