He was born in Tain, a small village in la Drôme, on the left bank of the River Rhône, on 30 July 1857.
Maurice de La Sizeranne was fascinated by this problem and worked on a new abbreviated way of writing braille.
[1] In 1880, he gave up his career to devote himself to his opus: the French contracted spelling primer for braille, which was published two years later.
Thanks to his indefatigable commitment, his sense of organisation and numerous connections in the world of culture and welfare, in his full 28 years' activity as Secretary-General of the Valentin Haüy Association, Maurice de La Sizeranne saw through an accomplishment whose fame in the world of the visually impaired was to spread way beyond it.
In 1936, the street separating the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (INJA) of the Association Valentin Haüy (AVH) in the 7ème arrondissement of Paris was named rue Maurice de La Sizeranne.