Valentin HAÜY (1745-1822) founder of the Institute for young - Lot 235

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Valentin HAÜY (1745-1822) founder of the Institute for young - Lot 235
Valentin HAÜY (1745-1822) founder of the Institute for young blind people, he invented the raised characters to allow blind people to read. L.A.S., Paris "to the Institution of the Blind" November 19, 1792, to the Citizen Prosecutor-Syndic; 1 page in-4. On the admission of a child in his establishment: "Jealous to take nothing on my conscience, in the admission that you propose me of the unfortunate and thousand times unfortunate Le Clerc, as well as I took nothing in the admission of his comrades, I beg you to communicate to me an expedition of the state which was made under your eyes and which I signed. Then I will consult my students, on his rights and on those of his competitor; and their opinion will direct my choice"... He signs: "Haüy Teacher of Blind Children". Two printed documents are attached: J.B. Massieu, Rapport sur l'établissement des Aveugles-Nés, et sa réunion à celui des Sourds-Muets... (1791); Ménard-Lagroye, Rapport... Sur une pétition du citoyen Alhoy, premier instituteur et chef de l'École nationale des Sourds-Muets de Paris (13 Vendémiaire VIII). Plus a l.a.s. from A. Péphau (1901, on the letterhead of the Braille School).
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