The Signature of (Soft) Power

The Transatlantic Intelligencer blog, via No-Paseran:

Readers might be forgiven for imagining that the signature depicted below is that of a teenage schoolgirl – perhaps used to dedicate a copy of a friend's high school yearbook, for instance. I say this, incidentally, on the authority of a former teenage schoolgirl who was kind enough to bring the photo and the similitude to my attention. As so happens, it is the signature of French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.

(Read the whole thing, though you can probably figure the rest of it out by looking at it.)