Mélanie de Salignac [SEP] medical condition
Mélanie de Salignac
Mélanie de Salignac (Marennes, Charente-Maritime, 19 January 1744 –1766) was a young French woman whose achievements in the face of her disability - blindness - were mentioned in the accounts of Diderot. She was born blind long before the invention of Braille in 1829, but 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".
She was born at the
Salignac
Salignac may refer to:
People.
- Eugene de Salignac (1861–1943), American photographer
- Eustase Thomas-Salignac, French tenor
- François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (missionary) (1641–1679), Sulpician missionary in New France
- François Louis de Salignac marquis de La Mothe-Fénelon (1722–1767), French soldier, governor of Martinique from 1763 to 1764
- Giraut de Salignac, jongleur and troubadour from the Quercy
- Mélanie de Salignac (1744–1766), blind