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The Study of Natural Sign Language in Eighteenth-Century France
- Sign Language Studies
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 2, Number 4, Summer 2002
- pp. 391-406
- 10.1353/sls.2002.0017
- Article
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In 1779 the French Deaf author Pierre Desloges published a book on sign language and deaf education. This publication, together with additional contemporary sources, provides insights into an early phase of sign language use in eighteenth-century Paris as well as into the history of ideas on signs.