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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 311791, member: 5833"]Reading French isn't the problem, reading the handwriting is. One word might be 'verte', green.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can say the price was 2 sous. Before converting to the euro, the French monetary unit was the franc, which was divided into 100 centimes. A sou was 5 centimes. I don't know when this was priced. It's a good long while since I was in France, but at that time the value of the franc was about 20 cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>I too thought the dots over the signature were likely to be an umlaut until I noticed they wander & are not in the same places on both examples. I wonder that they wander & suspect they are actually flying periods (full stops) that belong after 2 initials in front of a very short surname.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]103207[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 311791, member: 5833"]Reading French isn't the problem, reading the handwriting is. One word might be 'verte', green. Can say the price was 2 sous. Before converting to the euro, the French monetary unit was the franc, which was divided into 100 centimes. A sou was 5 centimes. I don't know when this was priced. It's a good long while since I was in France, but at that time the value of the franc was about 20 cents. I too thought the dots over the signature were likely to be an umlaut until I noticed they wander & are not in the same places on both examples. I wonder that they wander & suspect they are actually flying periods (full stops) that belong after 2 initials in front of a very short surname. [ATTACH=full]103207[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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