TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kennedy,Emmet
TI  - Abb�e Sicard's deaf education: empowering the mute, 1785-1820 
SN  - 9781137512857
AV  - HV 2426 .S56 K46 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Sicard, Roch Ambroise,
KW  - Teachers of deaf people
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - Deaf people
KW  - Education
KW  - History
KW  - Sign language
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Ascent to Paris -- 2. Passport through the Terror -- 3. A Refractory Priest in the Republic of Professors -- 4. Sicard and Napoleon -- 5. International Signing During the Restoration -- Conclusion -- Appendices : I. Analysis of Abb�e Sicard's Library in 1822 (June 26-July 4, 1822) -- II. Johanna von Schopenhauer Visits Sicard's Institution -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - "Sicard was a French revolutionary priest who enjoyed a meteoric rise from Toulouse and Bordeaux to Paris. Despite the fact that he was a non-juror, he escaped the guillotine. In fact, the revolutionaries acknowledged him as one of the great creators of sign language. In the Terror of 1794, they made him the director of the first school for the deaf, and later he became a member of the first Ecole Normale of 1794, the National Institute, and the Acade;mie Fran�caise. He is recognized today as having developed Enlightenment theories of pantomime, "signing, ' (and hopefully a "universal language") that later spread to Russia, Spain, and America. No book-length biography of Sicard has been published in any language since 1873, even though Sicard became an international "celebrity." My story is of interest to French and American language and deaf studies as well as to the history of the French Revolution and Napoleon"--
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