of graphology, Cardinal Regnier, Archbishop of Cambrai, Bishop Soudinet of Amiens, and the Abbe Flandrin, came together in the mid-nineteenth century to study handwriting in an effort to find the relationship between character traits and their graphic expressions. The conclusions drawn and the study published by the group received widespread recognition for their efforts. One man in particular, Abbe Jean-Hippolyte Michon of Paris, a disciple of the Abbe Flandrin, became very interested in the book and its hypotheses. Michon spent the next thirty years of his life collecting writing samples. After he had collected thousands of samples, Michon formulated a system of analyzing the different strokes made in writing which he later published in two books, one in 1872, the second in 1878. The Abbe Michon is credited with inventing the word for handwriting analysis, designating the word graphology. Many contemporary graphologists consider Michon the father on modern graphology.
             One of Michon's followers, Jules Crepieux-Jamin, thought that Michon's study of handwriting was far too narrow for such a wide topic. Jamin made the comparison that "the study of the elements (of handwriting) is to grapho
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