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Laurent Clerc was a Deaf Frenchman who was noted as being: 1) America’s first Deaf teacher of Deaf people; 2) the first Deaf person to appear before U. ...
Laurent was born December 26, 1785 near Lyon in eastern France, in the village of La Balme-Les Grotteos. His father was Mayor of the town for 34 years and the family could boast of a long line of magistrates in the Clerc lineage for over 300 years. Laurent lived through the French Revolution, witnessing Napoleons rise and fall. ...
When he was about one year old, baby Laurent accidentally fell out of his high chair and into the nearby kitchen fireplace. ...
It took years for an uncle also named Laurent Clerc to finally persuade Laurent’s sad and very protective mother to give him up so he could attend the world’s first permanent school for Deaf children in Paris. When Laurent was twelve years old, his uncle took him to the Royal Institution for the Deaf in Paris. Laurent did extremely well there. The school’s successor, Abbe Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, liked young Laurent and upon Laurent’s graduation at age 20, in the year 1805, he began a career as a teacher and school head. ... Abbe Sicard had taken Laurent Clerc and a Deaf colleague, Jean Massieu to London where he was showing them off in front of a captivated audience, because until then, Deaf people were considered uneducatable.
Approximate Word count = 1194
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