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Abbe Sicard's Deaf Education - Empowering the Mute, 1785-1820 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Abbe Sicard's Deaf Education - Empowering the Mute, 1785-1820 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Abbe Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of
French and American sign language. He enjoyed a meteoric rise from
Toulouse and Bordeaux to Paris and, despite his non-conformist
tendencies, he escaped the guillotine. In fact, the revolutionaries
acknowledged his position and during the Terror of 1794, they made
him the director of the first school for the deaf. Later, he became
a member of the first Ecole Normale, the National Institute, and
the Academie Francaise. He is recognized today as having developed
Enlightenment theories of pantomime, "signing,' and a form of
"universal language" that later spread to Russia, Spain, and
America. This is the first book-length biography of Sicard
published in any language since 1873, despite Sicard's
international renown. This thoughtful, engaging work explores
French and American sign language and deaf studies set against the
backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon.
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