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Louis Braille
Louis Braille was born in 1809.
He was born in a small town near Paris.
When he was 3 years old, an accident made him blind.
His parents wanted Louis to live a normal life.
They taught him to walk with a cane.
Using the cane he was able to walk around by himself.
Although he was blind, he was a very good student.
When he was 10, he went to a school for the blind in Paris.
At his school there were books with raised letters.
The raised letters made the books very big and heavy.
Reading these books was very slow and difficult.
Louis wanted to find a better way to print books for the blind.
In 1821, he learned that soldiers wrote messages with raised dots.
The raised dots made it possible to read the messages in the dark.
He modified this writing to create the Braille system.
The Braille system is used to print books for the blind.
The Braille system has been used for over 200 years.
In 1833 Louis became a professor at his school in Paris.
Louis also studied music.
He played the organ in churches all over Paris.
Louis Braille had many health problems.
He died in 1852 at the age of 40.