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'''Giacobbo Rodríguez Pereire''' (1715-1780) was born in western [[Spain]], of a Spanish-Jewish family in the old province of [[Estremadura]], which has been partitioned into the provinces of [[Badajoz]] and [[Cáceres]]. The area in which he was born is populated by an abundance of poor people, but it has produced [[conquistadores]] and soldiers such as [[Cortés]] and [[Pizarro]]. |
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He was one of the inventors of the [[deaf]]-mute language, and he is credited with being the first person to teach a deaf-mute to speak. In [[1759]], he was made a member of the [[Royal Society of London]]. His grandsons, Emile Pereire (1800-75) and Isaac Pereire (1806-80), were [[France|French]] bankers who encouraged the construction of the first railway in [[France]] in [[1835]]. In [[1852]], they founded the ''Société du Crédit Mobilier''. |
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