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birth
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accident
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Paris to attend the National Institute for Blind Children
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When he was 15, he worked out an adaptation, written with a simple instrument, that met the needs of the sightless
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he taught in the Institute
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in 1837 he published a three-volume Braille edition of a popular history schoolbook
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Death January 6, 1852
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Period: to
Braille code
The blind have been using the Braille code ever since.