Less than one in two French people has written words on paper in the last 12 months, according to an Ifop study. The keyboard has become the number 1 writing instrument, the pen only intervening for the supplement.
Some practices - the sending of postcards in particular - are trying, as best they can, to resist. A quarter of the French say they are attached to handwriting, while a third of this ultra-digitized generation says they feel nostalgia for handwriting. "A note from someone who wrote by hand and signed, it's heartwarming," says one woman.