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''Pyrénée'' is a 1998 French
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(bande dessinée) by Regis Loisel and Philippe Sternis, about a feral girl who is brought up in the mountains of the French
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by a
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Plot summary

When a huge
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devastates a town in the French Pyrenees, a
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escapes from a
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in the confusion and later finds a small girl whose mother has been killed in the quake. The bear rescues the girl (and her
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) and raises her as his own cub like a female version of
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's
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, high in the inaccessible mountains, naming her "Pyrénée" after them. Later on she also learns
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and wisdom from a blind old
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, learns to hunt and fish, and eventually has to find her way back to human society.


Inspirations

The French Pyrenees were home to two people that may have served as inspiration for the story. The Girl of Issaux, lost in the snow at the age of 8 and captured at the age of 16 (circa 1719), and also La Folle des Pyrénées on feralchildren.com (captured 1807 at the age of about 40) who was not feral but lived with the bears. The story also draws some parallels to another story of a wild child of French origin –
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See also

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List of fictional feral children Feral children, children who have lived from a young age without human contact, appear in mythological and fictional works, usually as human characters who have been raised by animals. Often their dual heritage is a benefit to them, protecting ...


References


External links


Pyrenee
on nota-bene.org (in French)
Official website of Regis Loisel
(in French)

(in English) on
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Pyrenee fan-page
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