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SICARD  ,

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ROCH-AMBROISE CUCURRON (1742-1822),
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French
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abbe and instructor of
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deaf-mutes, was
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born at Le Fousseret, Haute-
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Garonne, on the 20th of
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September 1742 . Educated as a
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priest, he was made
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principal of a school of deaf-mutes at
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Bordeaux in 1786, and in 1789, on the
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death of the Abbe de 1'
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Epee (see EPEE), succeeded him at
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Paris . His
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chief
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work was his Cours d'instruction d'un sourd-muet de naissance (1800) . See DEAF AND DUMB . The Abbe Sicard managed to
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escape any serious harm in the
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political troubles of 1792, and became a member of the
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Institute in 1795, but the value of his educational work was hardly recognized till shortly before his death at Paris on the loth of May 1822 .

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