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New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register
Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
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At the 1826 French Academy annual sitting, prizes for merit and virtue were awarded to poor laborer Pierre Martin for selflessly supporting his large family without begging, and to girl Hermitte for teaching a deaf and dumb child to read and write. Publication prizes went to works on moral improvement and education.
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Generosity Rewarded. At the last annual sitting of the French Academy, the prize of 10,000 francs, for "merit and virtue," was awarded to Pierre Martin, a poor day-laborer, who, having married a poor girl, who had three blind brothers, and an infirm father, maintained them by his labor, and would suffer none of them to ask alms, though he had three children of his own to support. He worked night and day, depriving himself of sustenance, that they should not want, till he frequently fell down from over exertion, and want of food. The second prize of 3,000 francs, was given to a poor girl, named Hermitte, who took a poor deaf and dumb child under her protection, and, without any knowledge of the methods in use, succeeded in teaching her little protege to read and write. Various other rewards were distributed on similar grounds.
The prizes for publications conductive to morals and virtue, were awarded to Baron de Gerando, for a work on "Moral Improvement, or Self Education," and to the work of the late Madame Campan, on "Education."
[Christian Observer, Nov. 1826.
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The French Academy awarded the top prize of 10,000 francs to Pierre Martin for supporting his wife, her three blind brothers, infirm father, and his own three children through exhaustive labor without allowing begging. The second prize of 3,000 francs went to Hermitte for independently teaching a deaf and dumb child to read and write. Other similar rewards were given, along with publication prizes for works on moral improvement and education.