Outlook for the Blind, Vol. 20

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Excerpt from Outlook for the Blind, Vol. 20: June, 1926Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau were the outstanding figures of French intellectual life. All were revolutionary in their thought and all undoubtedly exercised great in¿uence on the plastic mind of the young Ha'iiy.Valentin Haiiy was born at St. Just-en-chaussee in Picardy, November 13, 1745. His parents were poor and his earliest education was received free from the Premonstrant monks. He went while still young to Paris to complete his education and remained there practically the whole of his life. He was a minor employee of the goverment and privately devoted himself to the study of language.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.