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Is this kind of handwriting normal in France?

The text reads:

Je suis bien touchée de ce que vous me dites à ce sujet.
Vous savez que mon coeur a toujours battu pour vous tous et je sais bien que c’est réciproque.
La bonne Denise ne veut tout d’un coup pas accepter la croix de notre ordre mexicain que je lui ai envoyée sous prétexte que la Reine n’aimait pas les ordres et que c’était ce qui lui avait expliqué que je ne l’eusse pas comprise sous la première distribution.
Je lui ai répondu que Grand’ maman

It is a letter written in 1866 from Charlotte, the Empress of Mexico, to her uncle, the Duke of Nemours.

Source: Rice University
http://scholarship.rice.edu/jsp/xml/1911/27238/1/aa00207.tei.html

I wouldn’t qualify this as “normal” modern writing in France but I guess most of the doctors prescriptions I had in my life were less legible than that letter 😉

Nous avons tous notre propre façon d’écrire, notre propre calligraphie, plus ou moins lisible pour les autres. Celle de Charlotte ne me semble pas plus illisible que celle de nombreuses personnes, en France ou ailleurs, qui écrivent encore à la main et en lettres cursives. Le traitement de textes à l’ordinateur est en partie responsable du déclin de l’écriture cursive et contribue à la rendre désuète.

As already said, each person has his own kind of writing.
As a genalogist, I studied the different kind of writing in France, and I can say this kind of writing is from about the middle of XIX century (although it may be different for each region).

So I would say that nowadays, this kind of writing is not normal in France.

It’s not easy to read.

Here is an example of the cursive hand-writing that’s taught nowadays (and which is close to what I was taught in the 1960s).

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So that’s arguably the “normal” hand-writing (‘normal’ meaning correct or legislated, though not necessarily ordinary or average), which I’d expect anyone could read easily.

 

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