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    Victor of Aveyron was a French feral boy who was reportedly raised by wolves in the late 18th century. When he was around 12 years old, he was found living in the woods and unable to speak. Researchers attempted to teach him language and social skills to prove that these abilities depend on one's environment and upbringing rather than inherent nature. Though he made some progress under the care of Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Victor never fully adapted to social conventions and remained more comfortable in the wild. His case contributed to debates around the Enlightenment idea that culture and learning separate humans from animals.

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    Victor of Aveyron was a French feral boy who was reportedly raised by wolves in the late 18th century. When he was around 12 years old, he was found living in the woods and unable to speak. Researchers attempted to teach him language and social skills to prove that these abilities depend on one's environment and upbringing rather than inherent nature. Though he made some progress under the care of Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Victor never fully adapted to social conventions and remained more comfortable in the wild. His case contributed to debates around the Enlightenment idea that culture and learning separate humans from animals.

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    Victor of Aveyron was a French feral boy who was reportedly raised by wolves in the late 18th century. When he was around 12 years old, he was found living in the woods and unable to speak. Researchers attempted to teach him language and social skills to prove that these abilities depend on one's environment and upbringing rather than inherent nature. Though he made some progress under the care of Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Victor never fully adapted to social conventions and remained more comfortable in the wild. His case contributed to debates around the Enlightenment idea that culture and learning separate humans from animals.

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    Victor of Aveyron was a French feral boy who was reportedly raised by wolves in the late 18th century. When he was around 12 years old, he was found living in the woods and unable to speak. Researchers attempted to teach him language and social skills to prove that these abilities depend on one's environment and upbringing rather than inherent nature. Though he made some progress under the care of Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Victor never fully adapted to social conventions and remained more comfortable in the wild. His case contributed to debates around the Enlightenment idea that culture and learning separate humans from animals.

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    Victor of

    Aveyron
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    presentation begins
     In the case of Victor of Aveyron, a
    French feral boy who lived in the
    woods of the Aveyron region in the
    late 1790s and was allegedly raised
    by wolves. Victor had reportedly
    been sighted by local villagers as
    early as 1794, and in 1797, he was
    caught by local hunters and brought
    to a town. A young widow cared for
    him there for several months, but he
    managed to escape and return to the
    woods. He voluntarily emerged from
    the woods in 1800.
    The boy was then around 12 years
    old and couldn’t speak any language.
    The physicians who first examined
    him thought that he might have been
    deaf and mute. After he was
    examined at the National Institute of
    the Deaf in Paris, it was determined
    that he was completely healthy but
    had never come into contact with any
    language. He was comfortable being
    naked and had no problem with
    roaming around in cold weather,
    which led the researchers of the time
    to conclude that he was well
    accustomed to the harsh conditions
    of the wilderness.
    When Victor of Aveyron was found,
    the Enlightenment movement was
    in full swing; many prominent
    scientists of the time believed that
    the ability to learn and abide by
    conventions is the only feature
    which differentiates humans from
    animals. Several researchers,
    including a famous instructor of the
    deaf named Roch-Ambroise
    Cucurron Sicard, attempted to
    teach Victor French and the basics
    of communication to prove that the
    development of one’s language and
    social abilities depends on one’s
    surroundings.
    Although Victor showed some signs
    of progress, he was aggressive,
    hyperactive, and uninterested in
    learning. This eventually led
    researchers to the conclusion that he
    would never be able to adapt to any
    social convention, so they mostly
    gave up on his future. He was left to
    roam the corridors of the National
    Institute of the Deaf and become a
    kind of local attraction.
    Fortunately, he was adopted by a medical
    student named Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, who
    arranged for him to move into his own home.
    Itard was the one who gave him the name
    “Victor”; up to that point, he was known only as
    the “Wolf Child.” Under Itard’s close
    supervision, Victor managed to learn several
    phrases and accept some social conventions,
    but never became a fully functional member of
    society. Still, he received proper care and led a
    peaceful life until 1828, when he died of
    pneumonia at an estimated age of 40.
    The End

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