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Author Weygand, Zina

Title The Blind in French Society : From the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (421 pages)
Contents Abbreviations; Foreword, by Catherine Kudlick; Preface, by Alain Corbin; Introduction; Part I: From the Middle Ages to the Classical Age: A Paradoxical Vision of Blindness and the Blind; 1. The Middle Ages; 2. The Beginning of Modern Times; 3. Groundwork for a History of Blindness in the Classical Age; Part II: The Eighteenth Century: A Different Look at the Blind; 4. Sensationalism and Sensorial Impairments; 5. Philanthropy and the Education of the Sensorially Impaired; 6. The Move of the Quinze-Vingts and the Annuity from the Public Treasury
Summary A history of perceptions of the blind and of their integration or lack thereof in French society, this book introduces us to a host of fictional and real individuals and paints a moving picture of their advances and disappointments, concluding with the triumphant invention of Louis Braille
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Subject Blind -- France -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY / Europe / France
Blind
France
Genre/Form ebrary, Inc
History
Form Electronic book
Author Cohen, Emily-Jane
ISBN 9780804772389
080477238X