ID
0915
Nationality
French
Occupation
Chemist
Scientist
Activist
Summary
First deaf person in France to earn a bachelor's degree. Studied at the Imperial Institution for the deaf, Paris, then graduated from the Sorbonne (1885). Became a chemist and an activist, fighting the spread of oralism in the deaf schools.
References
Silence of the Spheres, p.52-53; Collage, p.182.
Dates
1846-1917