Ni vous sans moi… (French)

Hello, a short poem from an author of the 16th century, Marie de France: As it is poetry, so quite difficult, I will put the transcript (but I think it spoils the fun… if there’s any): D’eux deux il était ainsi Comme du chèvre-feuille était Qui au coudrier se prenait. Quand il s’est enlacé et…

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Marc-Aurèle : citations (French)

Hello, in these particular times, I wanted to post something that can inspire. Marcus-Aurelius was known as ‘the philosopher king’ and here are almost all the quotes in English: 1 – “God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to change Give me strength to change what I can And give…

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Lettres de mon moulin

Hello, first paragraph of the book of short stories, “Lettres de mon moulin” by Alphonse Daudet. (I’m not very happy about my “lapin”, the “p” curves difficultly…) Again feel free to criticize… Edit: changes made.

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Chance ou malchance (French)

Hello, a long time ago existed a blog full of interesting texts, insights, wits, thoughts, humour… It hasn’t completely disappeared because its pages have been saved in another website. The name of the blog was: cheztom.com Here is one of the texts you could find on this blog: Edit: a little change made…

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Le Trésor du Baobab (part 1) (French)

Hello, here is a nice African fairy tale. It has been written into French by a well-known writer, Henri Gougaud who collected a lot of meaningful stories. I will post it in two parts… For the numbers, I will remove them later… when there will be no corrections to be made. So… by kind permission…

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Famous Gregg shorthand users

Hello, on a thread on another website, someone who is very prolific and knows a lot of things, made a list of famous people using shorthand. Next to the name, he put — when he knew it — the type of shorthand. There’s no Gregg shorthand in this list. So I was wondering… who are…

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