The blind in French society from the Middle Ages to the century of Louis Braille

著者

Zina Weygand ; translated by Emily-Jane Cohen

Stanford University Press, 2009

Translation of: Vivre sans voir. 2003

Includes bibliographical references (p. [392]-403)

pt. 1. From the Middle Ages to the Classical Age : a paradoxical vision of blindness and the blind. The Middle Ages
The beginning of modern times
Groundwork for a history of blindness in the Classical Age
pt. 2. The eighteenth century : another way of looking at the blind. Sensationalism and sensorial impairments
Philanthropy and the education of the sensorially impaired
The move of the Quinze-Vingts and the annuity from the public treasury
pt. 3. The French Revolution and the blind : an affair of state. The establishment of the Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (1791-1794)
The National Institute for Blind Workers
The merging of the National Institute for Blind Workers and the Hospice of the Quinze-Vingts
pt. 4. Blindness in France in the early nineteenth century : realities and fictions. The blind in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century
Social representations and literary figures of blindness in the first third of the nineteenth century
pt. 5. Blindness in the century of Louis Braille : from productivist utopia to cultural integration. The Quinze-Vingts under the Consulate and the Empire : implementing a productivist utopia
The Quinze-Vingts under the Restoration : a "memory site" of the ultra-royalist reaction
The Royal Institute for Blind Youth under the Restoration