Aveyron

Thus, it was when the rigour of the weather drove everybody from the garden that the savage of the Aveyron chose to go there.

Aveyron lies on the southern border of the central plateau of France.

Wheat, rye and oats are the chief cereals cultivated, the soil of Aveyron being naturally poor.

Aveyron belongs to the 16th military region, and to the acadmie or educational circumscription of Toulouse.

She was born in 1866, at Dcazeville in the Aveyron, her father being a civil engineer, and a member of a good Spanish family.