882 - SICARD, Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, known as “l'Abbé” (1742–1822), pioneer of education for the deaf and mute. Set of 5 documents:

SICARD, Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, known as “l'Abbé” (1742–1822), pioneer of education for the deaf and mute. Set of 5 documents: -A long and extensive handwritten letter signed “Sicard, the teacher of the deaf and mute.” Paris, “Institute for the Deaf and Mute,” 8 Pluviose, Year II [January 27, 1794]. 2 folio pages. Blue paper. Regarding the relocation of the Institution for the Deaf and Mute to the former Oratorian seminary of Saint-Magloire, where it remains to this day: “The concern you have shown for the deaf-mute has led you not only to seek ways to perpetuate forever and expand the art of educating them, but also to transfer this institution—which you deemed so precious—from a building far too large for them to the former seminary of Saint-Magloire. This relocation was about to take place; but the hasty departure of the honorable Maigret has suspended this undertaking so worthy of national charity. However, the Minister of War, who has an urgent need for a location so close to the Arsenal, is already having all the necessary arrangements made there for the war, and the income of these unfortunate souls has been reduced to the meager sum granted to them in addition to what they earned from the vast expanse of the Célestins’ premises. You have declared yourselves the fathers of these orphans […]. Sicard requests that it be decreed “that these premises be allocated solely to the institution for the deaf and mute, along with all its appurtenances and outbuildings […].” -4 autograph letters, signed (2) or initialed (2), addressed to Aglaé de Bouconville, wife of the playwright Jean-Louis Laya. Approximately 7 pp., in-12 or in-16. An entertaining correspondence discussing baths, the loan of a cabriolet, dinner for his coachman and his horse, the Academy, his “new chivalry,” Abbé Dellile, the Princess of Salin, his Institute, etc.