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  Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, France.He was a very smart child.  1  , at the age of four, he became blind by accident.Louis began attending school in   2   town when he was seven years old.

  Three years later, Louis and his father traveled to Paris.There, he went to a school for blind children.One day a French soldier, Charles Barbier, visited the school.Barbier invented a system of night-reading.This system   3   small dots for the letters.Soldiers used this system in time of   4  .Barbier thought this system could help the blind to read.

  Soon Braille discovered that there were some shortcomings in Barbier's system, but it gave Louis a brilliant idea.He improved Barbier's system.By the age of   5  , his new system was completed!Now he wanted   6   schools to try his system.Luck went   7   him again.The school refused to use his system.Louis died in 1852 in Paris at the age of forty-three.

  Two years   8   he died, the blind schools began to use his system.Today we   9   this system Braille in honour of Louis Braille.His system is used for all languages, and for maths, science, writing music, and computers   10   the blind.

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