Editing Victor of Aveyron (section)

==Discovery==
In 1797, a child of around nine or ten years of age was sighted in the [[Tarn (department)|Tarn]]. Two years later, he was caught by some men and dogs, escorted to the village of [[Lacaune]], and taken in by a widow. He ate nothing except for raw vegetables or vegetables he cooked himself.<ref>Michel Gardère, ''La Femme Sauvage'', Place Des Éditeurs, 2011, p. 47.</ref> He ran away after a week.

In the winter of 1799, he went from Tarn to [[Aveyron]]. On the 6th or 8th of January 1800, he was spotted [[Nudity|naked]], stooped and with tousled hair by three shoemakers, who took him out of the woods.<ref>Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Victor de l'Aveyron, Éditions Allia, 1994, p. 7.</ref> He ran away, left the woods and was discovered a week later at a dyer's house in [[Saint-Sernin-sur-Rance]]. He did not speak and his movements were chaotic. According to the philosopher [[François Dagognet]], "he walks on four legs, eats plants, is hairy, deaf and mute."<ref>François Dagognet, ''Le docteur Itard entre l'énigme et l'échec'', preface by Jean Itard, Victor de l'Aveyron, éditions Allia, Paris, 2009, p. 7.</ref> He was sent to an orphanage at [[Saint-Affrique]] three days later, then to another at [[Rodez]] on 4 February.<ref>Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Victor de l'Aveyron, Éditions Allia, 1994, p. 8.</ref> The psychiatrist [[Philippe Pinel]], doctor at the [[Bicêtre Hospital]], wrote a report on Victor and considered him to be mentally ill and an [[idiot]] from birth (in that era, the term idiot was used to describe individuals with intellectual disabilities).<ref>Natacha Grenat, Le douloureux secret des enfants sauvages, La Compagnie Littéraire, 2007, p. 102.</ref>