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Who is Charles Michèle de l'Epée, but is commemorated by Google today November 24, 2018, please read the article about him.

Charles-Michel de l'Épeé is an 18th-century French philanthropist who became the "Father of the Deaf" for helping sign language become a popular method of education in many countries. family. He was born and raised from a wealthy family of Versailles, the most powerful political power office in Europe at that time.

Charles Michèle de l'Epée.

When he was young, he wanted to become a priest, but he did not have the grace to become unsuccessful, making him join the law. Later he was deprived of his license for being a pagan. His life devoted to the charitable activities of the poor. In the middle of 1760 and 1762 once he visited the slums in Paris he had the opportunity to meet two deaf sisters, where he saw them communicating. together in sign language.

From that moment he decided to devote himself to education and especially to educate deaf people.

In 1760, he founded a school, with the belief that deaf people have language skills. He began developing a French language and religious teaching system. Around the same time, his home became the first free school in the world to welcome all deaf people. At that time, up to 60 deaf students attended him at this house.

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He died at the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789. His grave is now at Saint Roch Cathedral, Paris. Two years after his death, the National Assembly recognized him as "a man of merit for humanity" and declared that the deaf had the right under the Declaration of the rights of people and citizens.

In 1791, the National Deaf-deaf organization in Paris (Nationale des Sourds-Muets, Paris), where he founded the school, began receiving government funding. It was later renamed Saint Jacques Student, then the National Institute of Young Deafness of Paris (Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris).

Charles-Michel de l'Épeé

1. Born on November 24, 1712 Versailles, France
2. Died on December 23, 1789 (77 years old) Paris, France
3. The first founder of the public school for the deaf
4. Full name: Abbé Charles-Michel de l'Épée