Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard was a French Catholic abbé and educator of the deaf.
Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, copper engraving by Charles-Etienne Gaucher, after the drawing of Joseph Jauffret (Musée de la Révolution française).
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was an American educator. Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first permanent institution for the education of the deaf in North America, and he bec
Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard
…1789, on the death of the Abbé de l'Épée, succeeded him at L'Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris which Épée had founded in Paris. He later met Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet while traveling in England, and invited him to visit the school. Sicard's chief works were his Eléments de grammaire générale (1799), Cours d'instruction…
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet circa 1842
The school founded by Gallaudet in Hartford is now the American School for the Deaf
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The Gallaudet Memorial at Gallaudet University