biography
pronunciation:
[brayl]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1809–52)
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| biography:
| Educationist, born in Coupvray, NC France. Blind from the age of three, at 10 he entered the Institution des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris. He studied organ playing, and became professor of the Institute in 1826. In 1829 he devised a system of raised-point writing which the blind could both read and write. |
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