Marie heurtin autobiography

French deafblind person

Marie Heurtin (13 April 1885 – 22 July 1921) was a French deafblind woman.

Marie Heurtin - Wikipedia

Despite learning no language until the age of ten, Marie was taught to sign, read, and write by the nuns of Notre Dame de Larnay, a convent near Poitiers. As a young adult, Marie helped educate other deafblind girls at the convent, including her younger sister, who was also deafblind.

Biography

Marie Joséphine Heurtin was born on 13 April 1885 in Vertou, Loire-Inférieure.^[1][2] Her parents were Stanislas Aristide, a cooper, and Josephine Marie, a charwoman; they were reported to be second cousins.^[3][1] Marie was the couple's first child of nine, but only six lived past their infancy.^[3] Several of the children were born either blind or deafblind, including Marie, who was born deafblind; Stanislas (born 1896), born deaf and partially sighted; and Marthe (born 1902), also deafblind.^[3]

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