Kamloops’ JMR Le Jeune’s letters to the inventor of Duployé shorthand (Part 1)
In the 1893 book “La sténographie en France“, which is mostly in French shorthand, the inventor thereof, Émile Duployé, reports years of contact with Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, who is famous to us as the originator of Chinook-Peipa (“Chinook Writing”) of British Columbia.
(My thanks to David Corbett and Alex Code for bringing all of this to my awareness!)
The earliest connection between the two men shows up on page 13, in an entry telling how in 1872 the young student Le Jeune had a letter published in a shorthand magazine:
Parmi les lettres insérées dans Le Sténographe en figure une lettre par M J.M. Le Jeune actuellement missionaire dans le Nord de l’Amérique et qui, de la sténographie Duployé fait la base de son enseignement parmi les nombreuses tribus de sauvages qui lui sont confiées.
“Among the letters inserted into Le Sténographe there stands out a letter from Mr. J.M. Le Jeune, who is now a missionary in North America, and who from Duployé shorthand forms the basis of his teaching among the numerous Indigenous tribes that are entrusted to him.”
Much more to come.
