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Born in Coupvray, France
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Blinded in an accident in his fathers workshop
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Began studies in Paris at the National Institute for Blind Children
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Louis published the first book printed using braille to describe and teach his system
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Louis becomes a full time teacher at the school where he was once a student
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Louis and his friend Pierre Foucault developed a machine to speed up the printing process
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When Louis died at age 43, not one newspaper in all of Paris wrote of his death
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Braille, his 6-dot method is accepted as a world wide standard