Pierre Pélissier
French poet (1814-1863) · France · On the map · Writers · Died at 48
Pierre Pélissier was a pioneer for deaf education in France in the mid-19th century. Born in Gourdon, Lot, 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.
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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. In 1843, at age 29, he went to Paris to teach at the Imperial School for Deaf Mutes, where he taught until his death.
