The New International Encyclopædia/Braille, Louis

BRAILLE, brī'y', Louis (1809-52). A French teacher of the blind, who himself was blind from his third year. He was born at Coupvray, and in 1816 went to the Institute for the Blind in Paris, as a foundling. He became a teacher there in 1828, and in 1829 devised his point system of writing for the blind. See Blind, Education of the.