translation from french to english

[Ruskie]

What is the date at the top of the letter? I can't work it out.

At the beginning I thought if may have been a letter to a brother in the war - but may be way off the mark with that theory. 

[Manchester Rambler]

I'm not sure about the date either - 12/9/65?  or 45?

cleaner - if you have more letters for translation, post them here and I/others will do our best!

Rambler

[cleaner1947]

thanks to Rambler and Ruskie for your help . the date is 1945 . i will try to post other letters a bit clearer  thanks again    cleaner 1947

[thetowers]

It looks somewhat to me like one letter on one side,   and a reply to it on the other side.

[thetowers]

Well I am no intellectual,  but this is most of it.

This is the page on the right,  the bottom right end the lines are truncated.

I send you again this little word which I hope finds you in good health.  I hope very much to receive your news because I swear that the time seems to be very long today.  Sunday day very sad I hope its not the same for you. Where are you now dear ? Perhaps very far and I know that wherever you are my heart follows you. To me that you find too heavy.

This is the page on the left.

Dicky I would like to give you a pleasant surprise Hooray.  Maybe.  But for that, it is necessary that you still be in Belgium this month.  I hope I will have this happiness if you change <heart?> <write?> dear you will be a love of grandson.?  little girl ?   Nanette is not very good she is naughty < > miss has 2 teeth Hooray.  I don't think I will go out today, the night caps are better at their place.  And then I become bad in the heart and jealous of the happiness of others.  It is better that I stay here with the hope of seeing you again big surprise. I give you my big kiss hello to all the family Elizabeth.

It is slightly unconvincing to me, that this is actually written by a french person.

[Sloe Gin]

It is slightly unconvincing to me, that this is actually written by a french person.

It's very odd in that the "vous" form of "you" is used throughout.  That's a formal usage, which doesn't seem to fit the content.  I would expect "tu".

[chinakay]

I don't think it's written by a French person either...it lacks accents (mechante instead of méchante for example, and ecriver instead of écriver although I would have thought écrire would be the correct form. Belgian maybe). It's also not very idiomatic...I can read it pretty well but I have trouble with "real" French The handwriting doesn't look very European either.

Well, my two centimes' worth

Cheers,
China

[Trishanne]

When I was taught French in the late 1940s, early 50s, I was told only to use the 'vous' form as 'tu' was  generally used in families for children. It wasn't envisaged in those days that we would travel and actually meet French families. I have now got several good French friends but I still find it difficult to use 'tu'.

[Suffolk Mawther]

Alors mes amis 

It could have been written by a non-French person with a good grasp of the French language? I agree that the use of vous would have been more appropriate a few years ago, we have adopted many French habits including hugging and kissing and using tu more often.

SM ...