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| National Institute for Deaf Youth of Paris | |
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Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris | |
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 Interior courtyard with the statue of founderCharles-Michel de l'Épée | |
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| Former name | Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets à Paris |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1760; 265 years ago (1760) |
| Founder | Charles-Michel de l'Épée |
| Director | Élodie Hemery |
| Website | www |
Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris (French:[ɛ̃stitynɑsjɔnaldəʒœnsuʁdəpaʁi],National Institute for Deaf Youth of Paris) is aschool for the deaf founded byCharles-Michel de l'Épée, in stages, between 1750 and 1760[1] in Paris, France.
After the death of Père Vanin in 1759, the Abbé de l'Épée was introduced to two deaf girls who were in need of a new instructor. The school began in 1760 and shortly thereafter was opened to the public and became the world's firstfreeschool for the deaf. It was originally located in a house at 14 rue des Moulins, butte Saint-Roch, near the Louvre in Paris.[2] On July 29, 1791, the French legislature approved government funding for the school and it was renamed: "Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets à Paris"."[3]
Prosper Menière was physician from 1838 to his death in 1862. In 1861, Menière reported to theAcadémie Nationale de Médecine on several of his patients from the school who had experienced vertigo associated with their hearing loss, which formed the controversial basis for his theory that the inner ear was the origin of vertigo.[4]
Following the abolition of the Spanish monarchy in 1931, the Spanish royal family lived in exile inFontainebleau.Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, second son of KingAlfonso XIII, completed his education at the Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris. The Duke of Segovia was deaf by age 4 as a result of an inner ear infection as a child.[5]
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