Please help on reading this handwrighting

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  1. ABDELBARI

    ABDELBARI Member

  2. moreotherstuff

    moreotherstuff Izorizent

    It's French so maybe @Fid
     
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  3. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Quotes from the poet Pierre de Bouchaud and Napoleón. Here's one of Napoleón's, spoken at the Battle of Wagram. À la guerre, il faut s'appuyer sur l'obstacle pour le franchir which (roughly) translates to “In war, you have to lean on the obstacle to overcome it."

    Debora
     
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  4. sabre123

    sabre123 Well-Known Member

    I adjusted the contrast and rotated slightly. May make it a bit easier on the eyes.

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  5. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    "Être aussi pur que l'aube, aussi doux que les fruits.
    Et, comme eux, simples et sans mémoire;
    Et sous l'azur immense où l'été, de retour,
    ouvre ses ailes de lumière,
    laisser mon coeur fleurir et se pâmer d'amour,
    ainsi qu'une rose trémière."

    Translate as:

    To be as pure as dawn, as sweet as fruits.
    And, like them, simple and without memory;
    And under the immense azure where summer, back,
    opens its wings of light,
    let my heart bloom and swoon with love,
    as well as a hollyhock

    PIERRE DE BOUCHAUD Les lauriers de l'Olympe

    "À la guerre, il faut s'appuyer sur l'obstacle pour le franchir"
    NAPOLÉON
    @Debora already got this one!:)

    "Quand je veux interrompre une affaire, je ferme son tiroir et j'ouvre celui d'une autre. Elles ne se mèlent pas l'une avec l'autre et jamais ne me gênent ni me fatiguent. Veux-je dormir? Je ferme tous les tiroirs et me voilà au sommeil."
    NAPOLÉON

    Translate as:

    When I want to interrupt a case, I close its drawer and I open that of another. They do not mingle with each other and never bother me or tire me. Do I want to sleep? I close all the drawers and here I am asleep.

    GOOD ADVICE!:joyful:
     
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