he Louis Braille born near Parls, prance, in 1809 when he was alittle boy, Louis was with his father's tools. One day, when he was four, loved to play was playing with his father's tools when a tool went into his left eye. An infection started sha to the other eye. He was unlucky. A in his left eye and went few weeks later, When Louis was 10, his parents took him to a school for blind children 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 with his fingers. There was one sentence on each page. Just one part of a book. weighed 20 pounds A whole book weighed By age eleven, had read all 14 books in the school. He wanted to read more but there were no 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 15 used dots for the letters of the alphabet. Soldiers could feel the dots with their fingers and read with no light. Barbier thought night writing could also help blind people Barbier's system was difficult, but it gave Louis an idea. He worked night after night to make a simple system with dots. By age 15, he had finished his system. He showed it to other students in the school, and they loved it They called it Braille, after him. At age 17, Louis graduated from the school and became a teacher there. In his free time, he copied books into Braille Someone read to Louis while he made the dots. He copied the books of Shakespeare and other writers into Braille. The students read all the books and wanted more. The school did not want a 15-year-old boy's invention to be better than their own heavy books and would not let students read Brail books. Nevertheless, the students continued to read them. Finally, after 20 years, the school agreed to use Braille