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- Born 4 January 1809. Louis Braille was born in a small town around Paris. At three years old, playing in his father's workshop, he struck an eye with a punch or a sting to work the skin. A few weeks later, the wound had become rarefied and the infection had given her another eye. In the end, the child overcame the infection, but lost sight forever in both eyes.
The boy's curiosity and the proper attitude of his parents led Louis Braille at the age of ten to recognition at the National Institute for Blind Youth in Paris. Despite being a pioneer school, the methods were not very innovative and, above all, the teachers communicated verbally with the students. They were also taught to read through the system devised by the founder of Valentin Haüy school. His books were written in Latin alphabet and embossed. They were expensive, heavy, scarce and difficult to read and, by chance, received little information. The main limitation of the system was that it used eye language for its fingers.
After reading over and over again the fourteen books that were in school, Braille wanted a new tactile reading and, why not, writing system. Thus, at the age of twelve, he learned of Captain Charles Barbier. Some say he had news of him in an article that a friend read to him; others say it was Barbier who came to school to explain the system they used to communicate in the dark during the war. They used a code of twelve dots and stripes, they marked the signs on the thick paper, and the soldiers, on the battlefield, could read the messages with their fingers, in the dark and in silence.
At the age of fifteen, Braille had adapted and improved the soldiers' system. He removed the scripts that were hard to read, limited the code to six points with reliefs and created a model to read and write the straight and separate letters. He used the typewriter's stinger, the same instrument he blinded in his childhood.
In 1852, until his death, he was a professor at the Institute for the Blind Louis Braille. But they never gave him the opportunity to use his system.
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