Melanie de Salignac

Melanie de Salignac (19 January 1744 Marennes, France –1766) was born blind long before the invention of Braille in 1829.

She taught herself to read using cut out card letters and achieved much more through her sense of touch. Diderot wrote about her achievements in his "Addition to the Letter on the Blind"^[1].

References

1. ^ Diderot, Denis. "Diderot's Philosophical Works". http://www.archive.org/stream/diderotsearlyphi005696mbp/diderotsearlyphi005696mbp_djvu.txt. Retrieved 2009-05-04. 

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Name	Salignac, Melanie de
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Date of birth	1741
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Date of death	1763
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