Pyrénée is a 1998 french feral child graphic novel (bande dessinée) by Regis Loisel and Philippe Sternis, about a girl who is brought up in the mountains of the French Pyrenees by a bear.
When a huge earthquake devastates a town in the French Pyrenees, a bear escapes from a circus in the confusion and later finds a small girl whose mother has been killed in the quake. The bear rescues the girl (and her teddy bear) and raises her as his own cub like a female version of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli, high in the inaccessible mountains, naming her “Pyrénée” after them (Perhaps not coincidentally, a pyrénée is also a type of fairy). Later on she also learns philosophy and wisdom from a blind old eagle, and eventually - like Mowgli - has to try to make her way back to human society.
Like Mowgli in Kipling's original story, Pyrénée is completely innocent of clothing. Her nudity does prove to be a serious disadvantage on one occasion when she is attacked by bees and ants, and she is reliant on the bear's warmth for survival in winter. When she temporarily leaves the bear one winter and lives with the eagle in a cave, the eagle teaches her how to wear a fur coat and boots that the cave's former human occupant has left behind. However, she only wears this clothing from necessity and not modesty, and discards it as soon as the weather turns warm again.
Size - 23.7 MB
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4-26-15
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