Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. He enjoyed a meteoric rise from Toulouse and Bordeaux to P

Sicard founded the National Institution of Deaf Mutes during the Terror. Paradoxically, the abbé was a non-conformist priest who was arrested frequently, until

This volume offers the first translation of 19th-century Deaf French activist Ferdinand Berthier's biographical sketches of the four men who influenced him most