Handwriting and expression / translated and edited by John Holt Schooling from the 3rd French ed. ... by J. Crpīeux-Jamin.

  • Jules Crépieux-Jamin
Date:
1892
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Credit: Handwriting and expression / translated and edited by John Holt Schooling from the 3rd French ed. ... by J. Crpīeux-Jamin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    M. Michon starts very faîrly by telling his readers that he is a pupil of M. Flandrin, but, while giving publicity to the teachings of his master, he thinks it right to State that he is not merely a compiler, but that he présents a personal work. This is true. Soon after this book was published an interminable quarrel arose between M. Desbarrolles and M. Michon upon the question as to which of them was the inventor of graphology ; as a matter of fact, neither of them was the inventor. This dispute excîted the amour propre oî VL. Michon, and he wrote his System of Graphology so as to detach himself from his former collaborator ; this work, how- ever, made no further advance in graphology. After- wards M. Michon brought out in succession : The History of Napoléon the First determined from his Hand- writing; the journal Graphology ïrom 1873 to 1881 ; a Memoir upon the Faulty Method used by Experts m Hand- writing ; A Method of Graphologie Study ; The History of Handwriting ; and a Dictionary of the Notahilities of France judged from the Handwriting. These last two works hâve not been completed, but a few numbers of the Dictionary hâve appeared, preceded by a very remarkable study upon The Handwriting of the French People since the Merovingian Epoch. The Works of M. Michon, who died in 1881, are of great importance ; he has either discovered or classified numerous signs of the expression of character in hand- writing, and the development which he has given to the study is ten times grcater than ail that appeared before his time. He once said that the Abbé Flandrin was the first to raise graphology from the level of