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How blind people learned to write: the truth can be told
Exactly 200 years ago, in June 1821, a crucial experiment was taking place in a school on the rue St-Victor in Paris. The school was the Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles (the Royal Institution for Blind Youth) and the students … Continue reading →
Posted in Charles Barbier, History of the blind, Paris cemeteries, Paris history, Paris museums
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Tagged Alexandre-René Pignier, Association Valentin Haüy, Charles Barbier, Coupvray, Disability Studies Quarterly, Douai, Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles, Louis Braille, Nicolas-Marie-Charles Barbier de la Serre, Noëlle Roy, Père Lachaise, Stéphane Mary, Zoubeida Moulfi
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The Technology of Compassion
I had just finished typing when typewriter collector Martin Howard took the photo below. If you read Braille, you will see that it says “parisian fields.” The Pantheon is the final resting place of France’s heroes: Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Émile … Continue reading →
Posted in Paris history, Paris typewriters
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Tagged Braille, Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzano, Charles Barbier de la Serre, Coupvray, Frank H. Hall, Hall Braille Writer, Helen Keller, Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind, Jacques Joseph Emile Badiou de la Tronchère, L’Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, Louis Braille, Martin Howard, Napoleon Bonaparte, New York Point System, Pantheon, Pelligrino Turri, Valentin Haüy
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