I have discovered in a trunk of my grandfather's possessions a French prayer book, with a note in his handwriting that it was given to him by a Mlle. Germaine Capiez in Amiens in 1918. He was stationed there at the end of the war waiting to be demobbed.
Intriguingly there is an inscription in shorthand, which an internet search shows to be probably Duployan, the French system invented in the previous century. At least some of the squiggles look very similar. I was fascinated to see animated examples in Wikipedia of how the symbols join up to make a cursive script, but I can make nothing of it.
It's fairly faint, in pencil, but if I could copy and enhance it is there anyone here who could translate it for me?
Of course it might just be meaningless, or someone practising, or it could be something more!
