Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard (French:[ʁɔkɑ̃bʁwazkykyʁɔ̃sikaʁ]; 20 September 1742 – 10 May 1822) was a Frenchabbé and instructor of thedeaf.
Born atLe Fousseret, in the ancient Province ofLanguedoc (now the Department ofHaute-Garonne), and educated as a priest, Sicard was made principal of a school for the deaf atBordeaux in 1786, and in 1789, on the death of theAbbé de l'Épée, succeeded him at a leadingschool for the deaf which Épée had founded inParis. He later metThomas Hopkins Gallaudet while traveling in England,[1][2] and invited him to visit the school.
Sicard's chief works were hisEléments de grammaire générale (1799),Cours d'instruction d'un sourd-muet de naissance (1800) andTraité des signes pour l'instruction des sourds-muets (1808). The Abbé Sicard managed to escape any serious harm in the political troubles of 1792, and became a member of the Institute in 1795, but the value of his educational work was hardly recognized till shortly before his death atParis.[3]
In 1803 Sicard became a member of theAcadémie française, occupyingSeat 3 as the successor to theFrançois-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, who was a diplomat.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sicard, Roch-Ambroise Cucurron".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 20.
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