Gilles Tréhin

Gilles Tréhin (born 1972 ) is a French art - savant. He lives in Cagnes -sur -Mer on the Cote d' Azur.

Gilles did not speak until the age of three his first word: airplane. With five he discovered the primes and the three-dimensional drawing. With six years of perfect pitch was with him and found that he was able to solve complex computing tasks without thinking. At eight, he was diagnosed with autism with savant syndrome.

Since 2003, Gilles performs a relationship with an autistic woman, the graduate mathematician Catherine Mouet. The two live together, which is unusual for autistic people. In their imagination, the two live together in the imagined and drawn by him city Urville, the district was allowed to choose Catherine.

Film

• Petra Höfer and Freddie Röckenhaus: Expedition to the brain; Part 3: The big difference. (DVD, German / English, 45 minutes) Science documentary on island gifted and autistic people with savant skills with an emphasis on Gilles Trehin. ARTE and Radio Bremen. TR -Verlag Union, 2006, ISBN 3-8058-3772-0