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Louis Braille : a touch of genius

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  • "Cette biographie de L. Braille, célèbre pour l'invention d'un système de lecture et d'écriture tactile par points en relief qui permit aux aveugles d'accéder au savoir, et également pour sa contribution à l'invention du raphigraphe, est enrichie de 31 lettres, de documents, de photographies, et d'oeuvres d'art."
  • "Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius is the first ever, full-color biography to include thirty-one of his extant letters, some written by his own hand, and translated into English for the first time. Three great men were born in the early weeks of 1809: Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, and Louis Braille. Only one has remained virtually unknown the man who invented a means of reading and writing still used today in almost every country in the world, adapted to almost every known language from Albanian to Zulu. Born sighted, Louis Braille accidentally blinded himself at the age of 3. He was lucky enough to be sent to a school for blind children in Paris, one of the first in the world. There, at the age of sixteen, he worked tirelessly on a revolutionary system of finger reading that became braille. He was a talented musician, astute businessman, and genius inventor collaborating with another Frenchman to invent the first dot-matrix printer around 1840."

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  • "Biography"
  • "Biographie"
  • "Biographie (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "Books for the visually impaired"

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  • "Louis Braille : a touch of genius"
  • "Louis Braille - Fühlbare Genialität"
  • "Louis Braille : fühlbare Genialität"
  • "Louis Braille : le génie au bout des doigts"
  • "Louis Braille le génie au bout des doigts"
  • "Louis Braille, le génie au bout des doigts"

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