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Known for. Braille. Louis Braille ( / breɪl / brayl; French: [lwi bʁɑj]; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people. His system is used worldwide and remains virtually unchanged to this day.
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Braille is named after its creator, Louis Braille, a...
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Louis Braille (4 January 1809 - 6 January 1852) was a French...
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Louis Braille [1], né le 4 janvier 1809 à Coupvray (Seine-et-Marne) et mort le 6 janvier 1852 [2] à Paris, est un enseignant, inventeur et musicien français. Il est l’inventeur éponyme d’un système d’écriture tactile à points saillants, à l’usage des personnes aveugles ou fortement malvoyantes.
Louis Braille is the inventor of the braille code. He was born on January 4, 1809, in Coupvray, France. At the age of 3, while playing in his father's shop, Louis injured his eye on a sharp tool. Despite the best care available at the time, infection set in and soon spread to the other eye, leaving him completely blind.
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Louis Braille was born in the village of Coupvray, France on January 4, 1809. He lost his sight at a very young age after he accidentally stabbed himself in the eye with his father’s awl. Braille’s father was a leather-worker and poked holes in the leather goods he produced with the awl.
Biographies. Braille, Louis. Louis Braille (1809‐1852) was born in Coupvray, France. He became blind after an accident at the age of 3 and attended the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris. In 1821 a lecturer named Charles Barbier described a form of code that soldiers used containing raised dots.
