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Louis
Braille was the son of a French leather worker.
He went blind at the age of three when he fell in his
father's workroom.
But Louis was very clever.
He wanted to be a
musician,so he learned to play cello,and at the age of
ten he won a scholarship to the National Institute for
Blind Children in Paris. He could play the cello, but he
could not read or write.
In 1819 a French soldier, Charles Barbier,
invented
"night writing" He used special dots on paper so
that
soldiers could read at night. Louis Braille understood
the importance of this invention for blind people and
when he was fifteen, he began to develop it.
In 1829 he started to use it at the Institute.
By 1932 "Braille" was in use all over
the world, but
Louis died in1852 and he never knew of the
importance of his invention
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