Epée, Charles Michel, Abbé de l', a noted philanthropist, born at Versailles; took holy orders, but was divested of them on account of Jansenist views; devoted his life to the instruction of deaf-mutes, for whom he founded an institute, and invented a language of signs (1712‒1789).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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