Can anyone identify (and maybe help transcribe) this French shorthand? Written by my mother.
Hi everyone,
I'm hoping this community can help me with something that means a lot to me.
My mother wrote several handwritten texts in shorthand. She has Alzheimer's, and she wrote these as the illness was gradually taking away her cognitive abilities. I recovered the documents about two years ago when we cleared out her house, and I've only recently found the strength to try to read them.
She is 68 and spent her entire career within the French national education system — her last role was chief of staff to the inspecteur d'académie (the local education authority's chief inspector). I'm mentioning this in case it helps narrow things down, though I honestly don't know how, or how often, she used shorthand.
She is French and learned it in France (in Lorraine, in the northeast), so I suspect it's most likely Prévost-Delaunay, though it could be Duployé. The texts themselves are in French.
As a first step, what I'd be most grateful for is simply help identifying the system. If anyone then feels able and willing to help transcribe even a few lines, that would mean a great deal to me.
Thank you so much for any help you can offer.
Jérôme
