meeting with Lucie, a young French prodigy

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They would be today 134,000 French people, to have an intelligence quotient well above the average. Meeting with Lucie, high intellectual potential, in this extract from the report by Valérie Astruc, to be found Thursday, May 6 in Envoyé Spécial.

After school, Lucie often makes a detour to the station since a piano was installed there. A little prodigy to whom everything succeeds. Lucie juggles with scores as well as with equations. “Maths and the piano are my two true passions”she enthuses.

Lucie skipped four grades

In ninth grade at the age of 11, Lucie is fluent in three languages ​​and skipped four grades. “As a job, I want either to be a doctor or to be an astronaut”, she confirms. The photo of Thomas Pesquet on her desk motivates her every night. With an IQ of 149, she is endowed with high intellectual potential, which she considers a real chance.


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