Serge Aroles

Serge Aroles
Nationality	French
Occupation	surgeon

Serge Arolesis a French surgeon and author who is best known for his researches aboutferal childrenand the king of EthiopiaZaga Christ(1610-1638).

Works on the feral child

Aroles found evidence that the feral girlMarie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanchad survived for ten years living wild in the forests of France, between the ages of nine and 19, before she was captured by villagers inSongyinChampagne(historical province) in September 1731. He discovered too that she had been born in 1712 as aNative Americanof theMeskwaki(or "Fox" ) people in what today is the midwestern U.S. state ofWisconsin,and that she died in Paris in 1775, aged 63. Aroles demonstrated also that Marie-Angélique learned to read and write as an adult, thus making her unique among feral children.

For his second book,L’Enigme des enfants-loups,Aroles investigated every known report of a "feral child" in the world, between the years 1304 and 1954, through a four-year search for archival verification of these reports. He draws the conclusion that only one case is authentic: that of Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc. All the rest – including the most famous ones, the "Victor" of the French directorFrançois Truffaut’s filmL'Enfant sauvage(1970) and theKaspar Hauserof the German directorWerner Herzog’sThe Enigma of Kaspar Hauser(1974) – are, he argues, either undocumented, simply mistaken, deliberate hoaxes, or frauds for monetary gain.

His profile on the website of his Paris publishers states: "The author, a surgeon, who conducted these enquiries [for his book L'Enigme des enfants-loups] between 1995 and 1998 on four continents, presents the first full scientific explanation of wolf-children, infants raised by a lonely she-wolf: thepseudopregnancy,a commonneuroendocrinedisorder in she-wolves.

His research focuses now on ancient Ethiopian manuscripts and on the biography ofZaga Christ,king ofEthiopiain exile, who died in France in 1638. "

See also

• Feral child
• Marie-Angelique Memmie Le Blanc
• Amala and Kamala

External links

• Interview on French radio about a feral child
• A graphic novelinspired by the work of Serge Aroles about the life of Marie- Angélique: Aurélie Bévière (Creato), Gaëlle Hersent (Illustrations),Sauvage,Delcourt, 2015, 215p. (ISBN978-2756035512)
• [1]Excerpt on books.google.fr
• Aroles, Serge (2007). L'énigme des enfants-loups: une certitude biologique mais un déni des archives, 1304-1954. Paris: Publibook.ISBN2-7483-3909-6.
• Excerpt from the bookin theNational Library of France(BNF)
• Movie and documentary broadcast on French public television, November 2012, including Aroles's explanations
• Les Eskimos, approche neurochirurgicale d'une civilisation. MD thesis. Silver medal of the Faculty, 1995.
• Dictionnaire Richelieu; "Zaga Christ" by Serge Aroles. dir. F. Hildesheimer, D. Harai; éd. Honoré Champion, 2015