L'Epée, Charles-Michel de, 1712-1789
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- Grande encyc.
- Arrowsmith, J.P. The art of instructing the infant deaf and dumb, 1819:
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Charles-Michel de l'Épée (French: [ʃaʁlmiʃɛl dəlepe]; 24 November 1712 – 23 December 1789) was an 18th-century French philanthropic educator who has become known as the "Father of the Deaf". He founded Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris, the first public school for the deaf, in 1760.
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