Louis Braille, (born January 4, 1809, Coupvray, near Paris, France—died January 6, 1852, Paris), French educator who developed a system of printing and writing, called Braille, that is extensively used by the blind.

Louis Braille invented a system of writing for blind people. Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin Louis Braille was a French educator. His blindness led him to develop a system that allows blind people to read and write. This system is …

Louis Braille, who was blinded at the age of three, invented the system in 1824 while a student at the Institution Nationale des Jeunes Aveugles (National Institute for Blind Children), Paris. The Frenchman Valentin Haüy was the first …

history of the blind - The development of Braille | Britannica The development of Braille Louis Braille, a student at the Royal Institute for the Blind (National Institute for Blind Children) in Paris in the 1820s, took a raised-dot system of …