Help Finding A French Cursive Website, Please

[elenita]

Hello,

 

A while back, a kind FPNer posted a link to a website that showed how to do each letter of French cursive. If I remember correctly, it was in all French and geared toward teachers, but the instructions were pretty self-explanatory and downloadable as PDFs. Unfortunately, I never saved it in my bookmarks and can't find it in spite of repeated searches. Can anyone help me out, please?

 

Thanks very much!

[anderl]

Do you mean cursivecole.fr?

 

I found the link in post #89 of this FPN thread.

 

Some other FPN posts that might be relevant or lead you closer to what you are looking for:

My linkhttps://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/92365-french-script/

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/86225-what-is-your-favorite-script/page__p__838954&do=findComment&comment=838954 (unfortunately with the images gone)

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/178652-looking-for-information-on-a-cursive-font/

There was also this French pdf document linked somewhere, but I've opened so many tabs that I can't see where anymore ...

 

Hope this helps.

[mliptrot]

Hello,

 

A while back, a kind FPNer posted a link to a website that showed how to do each letter of French cursive. If I remember correctly, it was in all French and geared toward teachers, but the instructions were pretty self-explanatory and downloadable as PDFs. Unfortunately, I never saved it in my bookmarks and can't find it in spite of repeated searches. Can anyone help me out, please?

 

Thanks very much!

 

Click!

 

The above link was what I found when I was looking up something similar - I took to writing the date on my classroom board in this style, when I have the time!

[elenita]

Thank you, andrei; cursivecole.fr was exactly what I was looking for. You always seem to know what I mean when I post here, and I always appreciate it.

 

mliptrot, I've never actually seen that site before, but it's a great resource. Thanks for sharing it.

[anderl]

My pleasure, elenita. (Or jelena? You seem to prefer the Russian variants ...)

 

From time to time, I enjoy a little light detective work. Keep the inspirational questions coming, and the appreciation of course

 

Anyway, some very pretty (and challenging) writing samples surfaced from this, including mliptrot's.

[Janeaustenviolet]

I think the handwriting style you are describing is called French Ronde and you can find many beautiful examples by googling images of French Ronde handwriting, or 19th or 18th century French Cursive Handwriting. I have found a lot of beautiful examples, including entire alphabets of majuscules and miniscules to copy. The main thing is to find good examples of the style you like and just practice every day. I have attached a few that I have liked, but you can find many online, some fragments from old letters written with quills and others with dip pens. These styles can be approximated with flex fountain pens, which is what I have been trying to practice. It is very enjoyable. Some writers use the Ronde style in an upright fashion, and others tend to slant far to the right. You can just please yourself and find what you like. I have found it practical to master one complete alphabet and then practice it in your writing until it feels more or less natural, and then look at other examples and mix and match various letters you like. I have found a number of beautiful special letters from individual images of letters or envelopes which I have not found in any set alphabet and I use those in place of the ordinary ones, so that now my handwriting is very individualistic but people say that it looks like it is from another time. This has all been very fun. And I was a child whose handwriting marks were always deplorable and I was given extra remedial homework which never helped. Mostly I would suggest you find things you like and just practice then and have fun, all the while knowing that your unique expression will develop in time. Happy writing!