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#65:  VICTOR.  One of the arresting stories of French history is of the abandoned boy discovered in 1797 in the forests of Aveyron, who had been living wild for some years, who was captured and brought to Paris and who for six years was the sole student of Dr. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, who attempted to bring the boy into the human community by teaching him the use of language. Victor de L’Aveyron, as he came to be known, arrived in Paris with many of the eagerly discussed ques

#64 :  LA BELLE CORDIERE. Louise Labé wrote her moving and intimate verses in Lyon in the sixteenth century, at a time when French poetry...

#63:  STRANGERS IN SOME VERY STRANGE LANDS.  When it comes to the British boarding school, one would have thought that George Orwell’s...