Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard
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Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard (September 20, 1742 - May 10, 1822), French abbé and instructor of deaf-mutes, was born at Le Fousseret, Haute-Garonne.
Educated as a priest, he was made principal of a school of deaf-mutes at Bordeaux in 1786, and in 1789, on the death of the Abbé de l'Epée, succeeded him at Paris.
His chief work was his Cours d'instruction d'un sourd-muet de naissance (1800). 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 at Paris.
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This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
| Preceded by: François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis | Seat 3 Académie française | Succeeded by: Denis-Luc Frayssinous |