Abbe sicard biography of williams

          The only biography of Sicard to date is that of Sicard's deaf student Fer- dinand Berthier, L'abbé Sicard, Célèbre instituteur des sourds-muets, suc-.

        1. The only biography of Sicard to date is that of Sicard's deaf student Fer- dinand Berthier, L'abbé Sicard, Célèbre instituteur des sourds-muets, suc-.
        2. Sicard founded the National Institution of Deaf Mutes during the Terror.
        3. Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language.
        4. “Abbe Sicard was Abbe de L'Epée's successor,” Jay says.
        5. From the Series: Francis C. Higgins collected many copies of documents related to the history of deaf people and wrote some articles.

          6. Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language..

          Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard

          French abbé and instructor of the deaf

          Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard (French:[ʁɔkɑ̃bʁwazkykyʁɔ̃sikaʁ]; 20 September 1742 – 10 May 1822) was a French abbé and instructor of the deaf.

          Born at Le Fousseret, in the ancient Province of Languedoc (now the Department of Haute-Garonne), and educated as a priest, Sicard was made principal of a school for the deaf at Bordeaux in 1786, and in 1789, on the death of the Abbé de l'Épée, succeeded him at a leading school for the deaf which Épée had founded in Paris.

          He later met Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet while traveling in England,[1][2] and invited him to visit the school.

          Sicard's chief works were his Eléments de grammaire générale (1799), Cours d'instruction d'un sourd-muet de naissance (1800) and Traité des signes pour l'instruction des sourds-muets (1808).

          The Abbé Sicard managed to escape any serious harm in the political troubles of 1792, and became a member of the I