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Louis was from a small town called Coupvray, near Paris
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At the age of 3, while playing in his father's shop, Louis injured his eye on a sharp tool. Despite the best care available at the time, infection set in and soon spread to the other eye, leaving him completely blind.
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He received a scholarship to the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris when he was 10
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Louis reduced the number of dots in each character from Barbier's 12 dots to 6 dots. This allowed all of the dots that made a single character to be touched at once with the fingertip. Louis continued to improve the system, which was mostly completed by the time he was 15
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Louis Braille died from tuberculosis
