Émile Duployé was a French

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, born in 1833 in Liesse-Notre-Dame ( Aisne) and died in 1912 in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses (now in

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). He is the author of the Duployan shorthand technique which was widely used in

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in the early twentieth century. He wrote a series of books on this subject, whose first edition was named ''Stenography-Duployé, writing easier, faster and more readable than any other, which applies to all languages'' (published in

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in 1860).

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1833 births 1912 deaths French male writers French Roman Catholic clergy Shorthand systems {{France-RC-clergy-stub

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