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Clerc & Gallaudet
Clerc to America
Sometime in May, something clicked with Clerc that he wanted to "duplicate the spirit of their school, in Connecticut.
Using his legal studies, Gallaudet drew up a detailed three year contract for Clerc's time in America.
Gallaudet told Sicard and later wrote to Cogswell, Clerc asked to come to America to be his assistant, Clerc says it was the other way around. It was not determined which is true.
On May 21st, he asks permission to bring Clerc to America. Permission is granted by Sicard but was not given permission by Cogswell to bring back an assistant.
On the journey to America, Clerc diligently worked on his English studies.
In a journal entry on May 20, after never having mentioned him before, Gallaudet writes that he would like to bring Clerc to America, with Sicard's permission to be his assistant.
Clerc and Gallaudet arrived in NY on August 9th, greeted by THG's family. Clerc was surprised at their casual greeting of a hand shake.
During the fundraising, Clerc was put on display during
public demonstrations and had to endure comments about how ideas are expressed to the "deaf and dumb" and how they did not need to learn grammar.
The day after they arrived in Hartford, THG took Clerc to a meeting of the directors, to introduce them.
Gallaudet In Paris
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THG began to preach outside of the school, on his own time.
March 16th, Gallaudet attended a lecture of Sicard. March 18th, Sicard drew up a lesson plan for Gallaudet. No mention of Clerc
Seeking Cogswell's approval, he tells him of his schedule in learning methodical sign.
In a letter to Cogswell, shortly after his arrival. THG mentions that he does not go out and see the sights of Paris because he wants to abstain from the public amusements to "abstain from the temptations to forget divine things. He found the Parisans to have heathen ways.
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Laurent Clerc
Born December 1785, Clerc was two years older than THG
While it is unknown if he was born deaf or not, it was believed, by his parents to have become deaf after falling into a fireplace.
He was not educated but instead helped his mother with livestock, in his childhood.
His father arranged for him to attend the deaf school in Paris under the instruction of Jean Massieu.
By 1806, Clerc became a teacher at the School for the deaf in Paris.