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Charles-Michel de l'Épée

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Charles-Michel de l'Épée

French priest and educator of the deaf

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About Charles-Michel de l'Épée

Charles-Michel de l'Épée was an 18th-century French Catholic priest and philanthropic educator who advocated for sign language as the preferred method of teaching deaf people, and has become known as the "Father of the Deaf". He founded the Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris, the first public school for the deaf, in 1760.

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Occupation

presbyter, educator, pedagogue

Citizenship

France

Born

November 24, 1712, November 12, 1712

Died

December 23, 1789

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