Wild Boy by Mary Losure Page B

Récamier . . . child of nature,” “the young savage . . . attracted,” “startling greed,” “all the delicacies he could filch,” “running across . . . rabbit,” and “bundled into . . . nature untamed”: L. C. Wairy,
Mémoires sur la vie privée de Napoléon, sa famille, et sa cour
, vol. 3, Paris: Ladvocat, 1830, in Lane,
Wild Boy
, pp. 108–109.
    Chapter Fourteen
    “I was obliged . . . does he not speak?”: Itard, p. 26.
    “inspiration of really creative imagination”: Ibid., p. 78.
    “the most rapid . . . first triumph”: Ibid., p. 32.
    “this reading conveyed no meaning to him”: Ibid., p. 61.
    “He often stopped . . . of his errand”: Ibid., pp. 71–72.
    “I have seen . . . threat, or punishment”: Ibid., p. 91.
    “stamp with joy . . . behind his head”: Ibid., p. 57.
    “Thus we have instructor . . . grimacing their hardest”: Ibid., p. 86.
    “‘Unhappy creature . . . boredom at Bicêtre”: Ibid., p. 73.
    “scarcely had I finished . . . bitter grief”: Ibid., p. 74.
    Chapter Fifteen
    “To speak of . . . judgment on him”: Ibid., p. 52.
    “I know, sir . . . diligent” and “essential . . . know the results”: Champagny to Itard, June 13, 1806, in Lane,
Wild Boy
, p. 133 (date in Gineste, p. 390).
    “brilliant hopes”: Itard, p. 40.
    “As for me . . . and to distain”: Ibid., p. 52.
    “incurable dumbness”: Ibid., p. 86.
    “As soon as his governess . . . to go out”: Ibid., p. 93.
    Chapter Sixteen
    “Hurrying into the street . . . Barrière d’Enfer”: Ibid., p. 93.
    “From my window . . . wealth of foliage” and “Along all . . . century-old trees”: Victorien Sardou, in preface to Cain, p. xx.
    half a million people: Braudel, p. 248.
    Chapter Seventeen
    “He turned in the direction . . . gained the forest”: Itard, p. 89.
    “he suddenly revived . . . radiant expression,” “In the eyes . . . given him life,” “in a loud and threatening tone,” and “This was always . . . all was forgotten”: Ibid., p. 90.
    Chapter Eighteen
    “Those generous . . . human heart”: Ibid., p. 87.
    “raving maniac”: Ibid., p. 92.
    “sitting beside . . . changed his attitude” and “he took the lady . . . his cheeks”: Ibid., p. 97.
    the Savage . . . should be sent to . . . Charenton: Chaptal to the Administrators of Charitable Institutions (including the administrators of the Institute for Deaf-Mutes), April 8, 1801, in Gineste, pp. 265–266.
    “destiny so strange”: Itard, p. 101.
    “those generous feelings which are the glory and happiness of the human heart”: Ibid., p. 87.
    “extraordinary young man”: Ibid., p. 101.
    “order and discipline”
[l’ordre et la discipline]
: Administrators of Charitable Institutions to the Minister of the Interior, July 13, 1810, in Gineste, p. 448.
    “with my deep gratitude”
[de ma profonde reconnaissance]
and “Widow Guérin”
[Veuve Guérin]
: Madame Guérin to the administrators of the Institute for Deaf-Mutes, May 2, 1811, Ibid., p. 454.
    list of Victor’s possessions: Madame Guérin to the administrators of the Institute for Deaf-Mutes, July 10, 1811, Ibid.
    “A park, a wood . . . virgin forest”: Hugo in Maurois, p. 20.
    recognized him by his loping gait: Shattuck, p. 156.
    Afterword
    “Today he understands . . . efforts that were made”
[Aujourd’ hui il comprend plusieurs choses, sans articuler des mots. . . . Il est resté effaré, à demi sauvage et n’a pu apprendre à parler, malgré les soins qu’on en a pris.]
: Virey, report of 1817, in Gineste, p. 455.
    “spoke no more about him”: Itard, pp. 4–5.
    “protector”
[protecteur]:
E. Morel, “Notice biographique sur le Dr. Itard,”
Annales de l’éducation des sourds-muets et des aveugles
, 1845, in Gineste, p. 455.
    Author’s Note
    “It is in the Memoirs . . . positive education”: Séguin in Lane,
Wild Boy
, p. 269.

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