Portrait de Victor when he was captured in 1800. It is difficult to understand how in France, in the department of Aveyron, at the end of the eighteenth century a person could be found to be violently separated from any social relationship and reduced to the wild. This true Robinson, discovered after several years in the middle of one of Europe’s most populous and civilised countries, is nothing more than a abandoned child who, by an inconceivable prodige, had managed to live alone, despite...