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Louis Braille

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Louis Braille was a French educator and the creator of a reading and writing system for the visually impaired.

Louis Braille:

• On January 4, 1809, Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, a small town about twenty miles east of Paris.
• He and his three older siblings, Monique Catherine (b. 1793), Louis-Simon (b. 1795), and Marie Céline (b. 1797) lived on three hectares of land and vineyard in the countryside with their parents, Simon-René and Monique.
• Simon-René ran a successful business as a leather and horse tack maker.
• Louis Braille, who was blinded at the age of three, invented the system in 1824 while a student at the Paris-based Institution Nationale des Jeunes Aveugles.
• Valentin Haüy, a Frenchman, was the first to emboss paper as a means of reading for the blind.
• At the age of eleven, Braille was inspired to modify Charles Barbier's "night writing" code in order to create an efficient written communication system for other blind people.
• He had started at the National Institute of the Blind in Paris a year before.

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