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Of delicate health, Louis Braille died of tuberculosis at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth on 6 January 1852 at the age of 43. He was buried in the cemetery of his village, Coupvray, a few days later. His ashes were transferred to the Panthéon on 21 June 1852.
Aged 40, Louis had to leave his teaching post at the Institute due to the worsening of a long-term respiratory illness. He moved back to his home town of Coupvray. He died 6 January,1852, at the Royal Institution’s infirmary. Braille was finally introduced at the Royal Institution two years later, urged on by Louis Braille’s blind pupils.
The wound got infected, and the infection spread. Soon, Louis was blind in both eyes. Suddenly, Louis needed a new way to learn. He stayed at his old school for two more years, but he couldn’t learn everything just by listening. Things were looking up when Louis received a scholarship to the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris when he ...
In 1828, Charles Barbier, a visitor to Royal Institution for Blind Youth, introduced Louis Braille to a tactile dot code known as night writing. Barbier had invented the code to allow soldiers to communicate with one another in the dark, but his idea hadn't caught on.
At age 10, Louis won a scholarship to the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris, one of the first schools for the blind in the world. Louis, a smart and creative student, became a cellist and organist, despite the challenges of his visual impairment. At the school, the blind children learned basic skills through mainly oral lessons.
In 1819, when ten-year-old Louis Braille began his studies at the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris, students were taught to read books that used embossed print letters. Reading was very slow and it was impossible to write anything by hand. After an army captain visited the school and demonstrated "night writing," Braille was inspired.
In 1819, when ten-year-old Louis Braille began his studies at the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris, students were taught to read books that used embossed print letters. Reading was very slow and it was impossible to write anything by hand. After an army captain visited the school and demonstrated “night writing,” Braille was
