Louis Braille, benefactor to the blind, was born today in 1809

Louis Braille, né le 4 janvier 1809 à Coupvray, près de Paris, et mort le 6 janvier 1852, est l'inventeur du système d'écriture tactile à points saillants, à l'usage des personnes aveugles ou fortement malvoyantes : le braille. Louis Braille (4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired. His system remains known worldwide simply as braille.

Louis Braille | Braille close-up

Plaque: 2, rue des Écoles
Louis Braille 1809-1852 L'inventeur du braille a conçu son système universel à cet emplacement, lorsque l'institut des jeunes aveugles s'y trouvait de 1816 à 1843. INJA 2002	Louis Braille 1809-1852 The Braille system's inventor designed it here, where the institut des jeunes aveugles (Institute for Blind Youth) stood between 1816 and 1843. INJA 2002

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Daguerre, inventor of photography, was born today in 1787

Louis Daguerre, né le 18 novembre 1787 à Cormeilles-en-Parisis (Val-d'Oise), mort le 10 juillet 1851 à Bry-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne), est un artiste français considéré comme l'un des inventeurs de la photographie. Il est connu pour la mise au point du daguerréotype. Louis Daguerre, born 18 November 1787, died 10 July 1851, is one of the fathers of photography. A street in Paris is named after him. A plaque in Paris shows where he invented and refined the daguerreotype, the first publicly announced photographic process, and the first to come into widespread use during the early 1840s.

Louis Daguerre

Plaque: rue Léon Jouhaux
Ici s'élevaient de 1822 à 1839 le diorama de Daguerre et le laboratoire où celui-ci perfectionnant l'invention de Joseph Nicéphore Niepce découvrit le daguérréotype.	Daguerre's diorama and his laboratory stood here from 1822 to 1839. That is where he refined Nicephore Niepce's invention, creating the daguerreotype.

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