Google shows Doodle for Charles Michèle de l'Epée, Father of the Deaf

The Search Engine Google is showing this animated Doodle in many Countries for celebrating 306thBirthday of Charles-Michel de l'Épée. Charles-Michel de l'Épée’s was a French educator who founded the first public school for the deaf. Dispelling the misconception that people with impaired hearing were incapable of learning, Épée developed a visual method that became the blueprint for the teaching of the dead and that changed countless lives at a time when many deaf people were discriminated against. Charles-Michel de l'Épée was born to a wealthy family on this day in 1712. He studied to be a Catholic priest but was denied ordination as a result of his refusal to denounce Jansenism. He then studied law before devoting his life to serving the poor. He began tutoring two deaf sisters who lived in the slums of Paris and who communicate through their own sign language. In 1760, he used his own inheritance to found a school for the deaf that was open to all regardless of their ability to pay. The French National Assembly eventually recognized him as a "Benefactor of Humanity" and asserted the rights of deaf people under France’s Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the citizen. Épée died at the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.