louis braille was born near paris, France,in 1809.when he was a little boy,louis loved to play with his father's tools. one day,when he was four,he was playing with his father's tools when a sharp tool went into his left eye. an infection started in his left eye and went to the other eye.he war unlucky. A few weeks later,Louis was blind.
When Louis was ten, his parents took him to a school for blind children in Paris. Louis lived at the school for blind childern in paris. Louis lived at the school. He was a good student and looked forward to the day when he could read. the school had some books that blind people could read. these books had letters that stood out. He had to feel each letter with his fingers.There was one sentence on each page. just one part of a book weighed 20 pounds. A whole book weighed 400 pounds! By age eleven,Louis had read all fourteen books in the school.He wanted to read more, bul there were on more books. So every evening, he tried to find a way for blind people to be able to read books. One day,Captain Charles Barbier, a French soldier,came to speak at the school. Barbier had invented night-writing this system with their fingers and with no light. Barbier thought night-writing could also help blind people.
barbier's system was difficult, but it gave Louis an. He worked night after night to make a simple system with dots. By age fifteen, he had finished his system. He showed it other students in the school, and ther loved it. Ther called it Braille, after him. At age seventeen Louis graduated from the school and became a teacher there.In his free time,he copied books into Braille.Someone read to Louis Louis while he made the dots. He copied the books of Shakepeare and other writers into Braille.ther students read all the sooks and wanted more.The school did not want a fifteen-year old boy's invention to be better than their own heavy books and would not let students read braille books. Nevertheless, the students continued to read them. Finally after twenty years, the school agreed to use Braille. Louis braille.but nobody cared.louis was unlucky. He became very