Father Sicard at the Institut des Sourds in Paris, 280 years old
Free tour in LSF and French, sculpture, paintings, heritage library, Louis XIII staircase, organic courtyard and garden, exhibition on Abbé Sicard, Gallo-Roman pottery oven.
Saturday 17 September 2022, 10:00Passed
Conditions
Free entry without reservation, possible health restrictions according to the directives in force on the day of the visit. Closed on Sunday 18 September.
l'Abbé Sicard au milieu de ses élèves, par Jérôme Langlois,1806, Collection INJS Paris
the deaf young people of the institute tell you in French sign language (with interpretation in oral French) the story of their school, former hospital of the pilgrims of Compostela, then Convent and finally Monastery before the Constitution gave the school for deaf students of the Abbot of the Sword. An exhibition on the life of Abbé Sicard, successor of Abbé de l'Epée, caught up in the revolutionary turmoil, saved by his students the deaf. A biodiversity trail in our organic garden, and finally, the gallo-roman pottery oven discovered during the kitten building workshops in 1988.
