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The style has been more definitively labelled as
French Cursive Batarde...........
Which means he trained to write in French.......he was educated in France.
Further it is the syle one used everyday:
which implies: you wrote frequently........that you were accustomed to taking or making notes.........
And it was created north of the Alps: specifically Burgundy for the nobility.......and became the main style of the Low countries printers and was the handwriting of manuscriptsa; both official as in legal and administrative
One must remember that in Pierres lifetime if one learned to read one learned to read in Latin first.
And even then one learned to read long before one learned to write..........so script handwriting or cursive style implies long years of education..........including cursive batarde..........which was intended to speed things up from the old cursive with flourishes
One should also note that French was not the main language of the South of France at the time.......but spoke Occitan
One learned to read more often than learned to write at the time: writing was taught on a need to know basis
One was also not allowed to write in a style outside ones station: thus the flourishey styles of the court...
since Pierre did not use this style for himself: we know he was not a courtier.......
However, that he wrote in a professional style suggested a military or merchant or legal or scribe background: suitable for creating sets of information.
this would not be the hand of a noble at leisure but of a fairly highly placed working man.....
that an investment was made in Pierre of substantial French education is a very strong clue to his identity....
This was no sheep shearer or weaver.......this was a man of station.....bourgeousie or higher.
That he should have such an education but then claim to be an armurier: .......would indicate a contradiction in terms to a degree
Important men educated their sons and sent them off into the military as the expected course of life.........
They usually were not mending weapons......but were clerks to Admirals etc.
Most definitely one with this handwriting was not coming to Acadia as an engagee.
More realistically he would be an Armurier de Roi: sent to evaluate the weapons of Acadia.......that kind of armurier.
This would indicate that he did not come from a farm town: but either directly from Paris, Nantes, Rouen or regions of Burgundy
Picardy is unlikely: there is no history of arms production
Certainly a Belgian would have no chance at a role like this either..........
This makes his last name all the more curious.......
he tells the French census takers;
I work in the business of weapons....
and I am settled and married here.....
but I am not farming.........
One would assume he had some allegience to the military...but clearly was discharged if so by the time they arrived in 1671
To have a military role
To have a high level of education
To not need to farm in Acadia to sell goods
implies he had support
and family back in France
He cannot possibly be truly invisible back in France: just not possible.
The only thing that does not work well is Sirre....the problem is the name.
DNA is the only thing that will tell us one who he is for sure......
Right now he is some kind of upper class Breton........possibly living either in Paris at the time.
It feels like half a name: Sirre de....
What we can conclude so far: Pierre was definitely educated in France and wrote on a regular basis in his day to day life.
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