Memoir
Despite his condition, he wrote the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking when the correct letter was reached by a person slowly reciting the alphabet over and over again using a system called partner assisted scanning. Bauby composed and edited the book entirely in his head, and dictated it one letter at a time. To make dictation more efficient, Bauby's interlocutor, Claude Mendibil, listed the letters in accordance with their frequency in the French language. The book was published in France on 6 March 1997. Bauby died suddenly from pneumonia 2 days after the French publication of his book, and is buried in a family grave at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France.
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