Pierre Pélissier

Pierre Pélissier at 27

Pierre Pélissier was a pioneer for deaf education in France in the mid 19th century. He was born September 22, 1814 in Gourdon, Lot, and died April 30, 1863. He was a teacher of the deaf and also wrote a dictionary for an early form of French Sign Language in 1856. He studied first at Rodez and Toulouse, under Abbot Chazottes. He then became a teacher at the School of the Deaf in Toulouse. He was the deputy secretary of the Central Society for Deaf Mutes in Paris in 1842. At 29, in 1843, he went to Paris to teach at the Imperial School for Deaf Mutes, until his death.

He is also noted for having been a poet. The following is an excerpt from one of his poems:

Dans l’œil tu (l’abbe de l’Epée) mis tous les dons le l’oreille,
Aux mains, la voix, dans le corps, des spirits:
Et, par leur chant, couronnant ta merveille,
Les sourds-muets se proclament tes fils. [1]

Pierre Pélissier’s writings

Literature

References

  1. L'Ami des sourds-muets; Journal de leurs parents et de leurs instituteurs, 1840-1841, vol. 3, p. 19

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