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Place of Birth: Semens, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Jean Massieu
- Jean Massieu (French: [??~ masjø]; 1772 – July 21, 1846) was a pioneering deaf educator.
- One of six deaf siblings, he was denied schooling until age thirteen when he met Abbé Sicard, who enrolled him in the Bordeaux School for Deaf Children.
- There he learned to read and write French, and later helped develop the first formalized French Sign Language.
- He taught at the famous school for the deaf in Paris where Laurent Clerc was one of his students.
- He began work after a scandal in Paris in Rodez and dedicated his life to educating deaf children.
- Later he founded a deaf school in Lille, France.
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