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⭐ In the context of night writing, Charles Barbier de la Serre’s initial contribution involved…

Barbier de la Serre invented night writing, a method utilizing raised dots to allow for reading by touch, as part of a larger exploration of alternative writing systems documented in his 1815 work.

⭐ Core Definition: Charles Barbier de la Serre

Charles Barbier de la Serre (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl baʁbje də la sɛʁ]; 18 May 1767 – 22 April 1841) was the French inventor of several forms of shorthand and alternative means of writing, one of which became the inspiration for Braille.

Barbier was born in Valenciennes and served in the French artillery from 1784 to 1792. He left France during the Revolution and lived for several years in the United States, returning to France during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. He did not rejoin the military.

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👉 Charles Barbier de la Serre in the context of Night writing

Night writing is the name given to a form of tactile writing invented by Charles Barbier de la Serre (1767–1841). It is one of a dozen forms of alternative writing presented in a book published in 1815: Essai sur divers procédés d'expéditive française, contenant douze écritures différentes, avec une planche pour chaque procédé (Essay on various processes of French expedition, containing twelve different writings, with a plate for each process). The term (in French: écriture nocturne) does not appear in the book, but was later applied to the method shown on Plate VII of that book. This method of writing with raised dots that could be read by touch was adopted at the Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles (Royal Institution for Blind Youth) in Paris in 1821.

A student at the school, Louis Braille, used the tools and Barbier's idea of communicating with raised dots in a form of code, and developed a more compact and flexible system for communications, Braille.

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