Zina Weygand
Biographic Data
| ID | 1489261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zina Weygand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zina |
| FAMILY NAME | Weygand |
| SIGNATURE | WEYGAND Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Blind Love
The right to affective and sexual companionship is among the current demands of people with disabilities. While this demand may be relatively new in France, aspiring to love and conjugal life obviously is not. Society’s reaction to these aspirations has varied from one era to another. Drawing upon the history of disability and the body, women’s history, and the history of love, the article focuses on the Reflections of a young blind woman in nine…
The Beginning of Modern Times
This chapter considers attitudes toward the blind at the beginning of the early modern era. It discusses the evolution of public institutions and the reform of the Quinze-Vingts; the reformers of assistance and work for the blind; and the representations of blindness in fiction and in iconography. The blind during the first years of the early modern era were on the side of misdeed—sin or heresy—and despite the open-mindedness of some humanist aut…
The Move of the Quinze-Vingts and the Annuity from the Public Treasury
This chapter discusses the many changes encountered by the hospice of the Quinze-Vingts in the eighteenth century. One of these is the sale of the grounds of the Quinze-Vingts on December 31, 1779, and their transfer to the rue de Charenton in the former residence of the Black Musketeers. The Quinze-Vingts also began to lose their status as a free association of religious and charitable purpose reserved for a limited number of members. They assum…
The Quinze-Vingts Under the Restoration
This chapter focuses on the Catholic reconquest the Quinze-Vingts administration during the Restoration. On December 9, 1814, the most venerable of the anti-Concordat prelates, Monsignor Alexandre-Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord, Archbishop and Duke of Reims, First Peer and Grand Almoner of France, came “as Grand Almoner to take possession of his rights to the Royal Hospice of the Quinze-Vingts and to exercise his functions as general and immedi…
Social Representations and Literary Figures of Blindness in the First Third of the Nineteenth Century
This chapter examines representations of the blind in the early nineteenth century. It reviews texts about well-to-do blind people who became famous for intellectual accomplishments while sharing family values, and fictional works with plots constructed around the real or supposed blindness of one or more protagonists. It argues that with rare exceptions, French theater and the French novel of the day reflect an image of the blind and of blindnes…
The Royal Institute for Blind Youth Under the Restoration
This chapter focuses on the accomplishments of the Royal Institute for Blind Youth Director Alexandre-René Pignier. Pignier consistently tried to improve the functioning of the institute in spite of recurrent financial difficulties due to insufficient government subsidies. In addition to providing new professional prospects for the blind, the purchase of a plot of land, and the construction of a new building, Pignier contributed to the institute'…
Conclusion
This concluding chapter summarizes the main themes covered in the preceding chapters. Specifically, it reviews the discussions of representations of blindness and institutions for the blind from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, and of the means of communication perfected for their use during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Establishment of the Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (1791–1794)
This chapter discusses the establishment the Institutes of the Deaf and Dumb and of the Blind in October 1791, which merged the institutes founded by the Abbé de l'Epée and Valentin Haüy in a single facility under in a single administration. The project ended in failure on April 3, 1794, with the departure of the deaf, who went to live in a new location, the former seminary of Saint-Magloire on the rue Saint-Jacques. The chapter examines the reas…
The Quinze-Vingts Under the Consulate and the Empire
This chapter discusses the new regulations and organization of the Quinze-Vingts under the supervision of the Minister of the Interior. It also describes the work of Paul Seignette, Agent General at the Quinze-Vingts, who became the salvation of the blind youth and definitively rescued the work of Valentin Haüy.
Sensationalism and Sensorial Impairments
This chapter begins by considering Locke's attempt to resolve the problem of the origin and nature of human knowledge from a sensualist and empirical perspective. It then examines Diderot's first work on the theory of knowledge, The Letter on the Blind for the Benefit of Those Who See, which combines metaphysical speculations with a number of scientific observations. This is followed by examples of blind people who were educated at home by means …
The National Institute for Blind Workers
This chapter discusses the establishment of the National Institute for Blind Workers by the Law of 10 Thermidor Year III (July 29, 1795). Called for the first time a “national institute,” the establishment founded ten years earlier by Haüy with the patronage of the Philanthropic Society was now open to blind children from poor families throughout the Republic. The chapter shows the decisiveness of the state's commitment to the process of the blin…
The Merging of the National Institute for Blind Workers and the Hospice of the Quinze-Vingts
This chapter discusses the merger of the National Institute for Blind Workers and the hospice of the Quinze-Vingts on 15 Vendémiaire Year IX (October 7, 1800). The merger called for Haüy to be relieved of the administrative responsibility for his establishment, but he remained “the sole person in charge of the moral education and instruction of the blind.” The government's decision to merge the two institutions was prompted by administrative and …
The Blind in France at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
This chapter considers blind people's position in French society in the early nineteenth century. Through examples culled from a variety of documents, it takes up the question of then-current social and cultural representations of the blind and blindness. These include the prosperous blind, the poor, and those blinded in war.
Groundwork for a History of Blindness in the Classical Age
This chapter first describes how blind mendicants were perceived as completely useless burdens, incapable of being rehabilitated through work. It then considers the work of Father Francesco Lana-Terzi, a professor of letters and a natural sciences and physics enthusiast, who proposed coded writing systems that would allow a blind person to write. This is followed by discussions of the life and work of two men who were blind since birth—Jean de Mo…
Philanthropy and the Education of the Sensorially Impaired
This chapter first discusses how the issues of education and pedagogy fascinated the men and women of the Enlightenment. It then considers the life and work of Valentin Haüy, who founded a school for blind youths.
The Middle Ages
This chapter examines the situation of blind people in the Middle Ages. It first describes the frequency and causes of blindness during the period. It then considers in in greater detail the ways in which medieval comic literature dealt with the stock character of the blind man—a character whose epigones would still be found on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century stage. This is followed by a discussion of the origins and operation of the hospi…
The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille
The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand's highly accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot…
The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille
The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand's highly accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot…
L'amour aveugle
L'accès à un accompagnement affectif et sexuel fait actuellement partie des revendications des personnes en situation de handicap, en termes de droit. Si cette revendication est relativement nouvelle dans notre pays, l'aspiration des personnes handicapées à l'amour et à la vie conjugale ne l'est évidemment pas, et les réponses apportées par la société à cette aspiration ont varié selon les époques. Cet article, qui se situe au croisement de l'his…
The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille
The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand's highly accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot…
L'amour aveugle
L'accès à un accompagnement affectif et sexuel fait actuellement partie des revendications des personnes en situation de handicap, en termes de droit. Si cette revendication est relativement nouvelle dans notre pays, l'aspiration des personnes handicapées à l'amour et à la vie conjugale ne l'est évidemment pas, et les réponses apportées par la société à cette aspiration ont varié selon les époques. Cet article, qui se situe au croisement de l'his…
The Beginning of Modern Times
This chapter considers attitudes toward the blind at the beginning of the early modern era. It discusses the evolution of public institutions and the reform of the Quinze-Vingts; the reformers of assistance and work for the blind; and the representations of blindness in fiction and in iconography. The blind during the first years of the early modern era were on the side of misdeed—sin or heresy—and despite the open-mindedness of some humanist aut…
The Move of the Quinze-Vingts and the Annuity from the Public Treasury
This chapter discusses the many changes encountered by the hospice of the Quinze-Vingts in the eighteenth century. One of these is the sale of the grounds of the Quinze-Vingts on December 31, 1779, and their transfer to the rue de Charenton in the former residence of the Black Musketeers. The Quinze-Vingts also began to lose their status as a free association of religious and charitable purpose reserved for a limited number of members. They assum…
The Quinze-Vingts Under the Restoration
This chapter focuses on the Catholic reconquest the Quinze-Vingts administration during the Restoration. On December 9, 1814, the most venerable of the anti-Concordat prelates, Monsignor Alexandre-Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord, Archbishop and Duke of Reims, First Peer and Grand Almoner of France, came “as Grand Almoner to take possession of his rights to the Royal Hospice of the Quinze-Vingts and to exercise his functions as general and immedi…
Social Representations and Literary Figures of Blindness in the First Third of the Nineteenth Century
This chapter examines representations of the blind in the early nineteenth century. It reviews texts about well-to-do blind people who became famous for intellectual accomplishments while sharing family values, and fictional works with plots constructed around the real or supposed blindness of one or more protagonists. It argues that with rare exceptions, French theater and the French novel of the day reflect an image of the blind and of blindnes…
The Royal Institute for Blind Youth Under the Restoration
This chapter focuses on the accomplishments of the Royal Institute for Blind Youth Director Alexandre-René Pignier. Pignier consistently tried to improve the functioning of the institute in spite of recurrent financial difficulties due to insufficient government subsidies. In addition to providing new professional prospects for the blind, the purchase of a plot of land, and the construction of a new building, Pignier contributed to the institute'…
Conclusion
This concluding chapter summarizes the main themes covered in the preceding chapters. Specifically, it reviews the discussions of representations of blindness and institutions for the blind from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, and of the means of communication perfected for their use during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Establishment of the Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (1791–1794)
This chapter discusses the establishment the Institutes of the Deaf and Dumb and of the Blind in October 1791, which merged the institutes founded by the Abbé de l'Epée and Valentin Haüy in a single facility under in a single administration. The project ended in failure on April 3, 1794, with the departure of the deaf, who went to live in a new location, the former seminary of Saint-Magloire on the rue Saint-Jacques. The chapter examines the reas…
The Quinze-Vingts Under the Consulate and the Empire
This chapter discusses the new regulations and organization of the Quinze-Vingts under the supervision of the Minister of the Interior. It also describes the work of Paul Seignette, Agent General at the Quinze-Vingts, who became the salvation of the blind youth and definitively rescued the work of Valentin Haüy.
Sensationalism and Sensorial Impairments
This chapter begins by considering Locke's attempt to resolve the problem of the origin and nature of human knowledge from a sensualist and empirical perspective. It then examines Diderot's first work on the theory of knowledge, The Letter on the Blind for the Benefit of Those Who See, which combines metaphysical speculations with a number of scientific observations. This is followed by examples of blind people who were educated at home by means …
The National Institute for Blind Workers
This chapter discusses the establishment of the National Institute for Blind Workers by the Law of 10 Thermidor Year III (July 29, 1795). Called for the first time a “national institute,” the establishment founded ten years earlier by Haüy with the patronage of the Philanthropic Society was now open to blind children from poor families throughout the Republic. The chapter shows the decisiveness of the state's commitment to the process of the blin…
The Merging of the National Institute for Blind Workers and the Hospice of the Quinze-Vingts
This chapter discusses the merger of the National Institute for Blind Workers and the hospice of the Quinze-Vingts on 15 Vendémiaire Year IX (October 7, 1800). The merger called for Haüy to be relieved of the administrative responsibility for his establishment, but he remained “the sole person in charge of the moral education and instruction of the blind.” The government's decision to merge the two institutions was prompted by administrative and …
The Blind in France at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
This chapter considers blind people's position in French society in the early nineteenth century. Through examples culled from a variety of documents, it takes up the question of then-current social and cultural representations of the blind and blindness. These include the prosperous blind, the poor, and those blinded in war.
Groundwork for a History of Blindness in the Classical Age
This chapter first describes how blind mendicants were perceived as completely useless burdens, incapable of being rehabilitated through work. It then considers the work of Father Francesco Lana-Terzi, a professor of letters and a natural sciences and physics enthusiast, who proposed coded writing systems that would allow a blind person to write. This is followed by discussions of the life and work of two men who were blind since birth—Jean de Mo…
Philanthropy and the Education of the Sensorially Impaired
This chapter first discusses how the issues of education and pedagogy fascinated the men and women of the Enlightenment. It then considers the life and work of Valentin Haüy, who founded a school for blind youths.
The Middle Ages
This chapter examines the situation of blind people in the Middle Ages. It first describes the frequency and causes of blindness during the period. It then considers in in greater detail the ways in which medieval comic literature dealt with the stock character of the blind man—a character whose epigones would still be found on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century stage. This is followed by a discussion of the origins and operation of the hospi…
The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille
The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand's highly accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot…
The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille
The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand's highly accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot…
L'amour aveugle
L'accès à un accompagnement affectif et sexuel fait actuellement partie des revendications des personnes en situation de handicap, en termes de droit. Si cette revendication est relativement nouvelle dans notre pays, l'aspiration des personnes handicapées à l'amour et à la vie conjugale ne l'est évidemment pas, et les réponses apportées par la société à cette aspiration ont varié selon les époques. Cet article, qui se situe au croisement de l'his…
Blind Love
The right to affective and sexual companionship is among the current demands of people with disabilities. While this demand may be relatively new in France, aspiring to love and conjugal life obviously is not. Society’s reaction to these aspirations has varied from one era to another. Drawing upon the history of disability and the body, women’s history, and the history of love, the article focuses on the Reflections of a young blind woman in nine…
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