Braille was natural within Coupvray near Paris, France. His father, Simon-René Braille, was a harness/saddle maker, & at the age of terzetto Louis hurt his left eye by using an awl from the workshop. This driven an contagion within his left eye which besides tainted his best eye & he became unsighted.

Whenever he was Tenner he earned the scholarship to the Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles (Royal Institution for Blind Youth) around Paris. He played a organ & became prof of the equivalent Institution.

At a school, them were taught to page through by feeling raised letters however it couldn't write because a printing was manufactured by owning wire letters pressed in to paper. At a age Dozen he began inventing a raised-dot body, finishing at age Xv. Great deal inspiration come from either a out army captain Charles Barbier de lthe Serre who visited a school, bringing sustaining him a body of night writing, created so soldiers can pass orders wordlessly when asleep. Serre's rules was according to dozen dots, whereas Braille's is according to sextuplet dots. Braille late extended his technique to include notation for mathematics (Nemeth Braille) and music (Braille music code).

Braille died of tuberculosis. He is buried in the Panthéon, Paris, France.

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