Using pictures to represent words dates back to Egyptian hieroglyphics and Chinese pictographs. But in the 1500s in France, a pa
![An hieroglyphic letter to a friend in London: Mar[gate] Nov. 12th, 1792.](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2d/fe/30/2dfe30e3e24ddc0a72854cf1593c2e5a.jpg)
