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"A graphic designer's search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man's fate during World War II. Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle of letters and was immediately drawn to their beautifully expressive pen-and-ink handwriting. She could not read the letters--they were in French--but she noticed all of them had been signed by a man named Marcel and mailed from Berlin to his family in France during the middle of World War II. As Carolyn grappled with designing the font, she decided to have one of Marcel's letters translated. Reading it opened a portal to a different time, and what began as mere curiosity quickly became an obsession with finding out why the letter writer, Marcel Heuze, had been in Berlin, how his letters came to be on sale in a store halfway around the world, and, most importantly, whether he ever returned to his beloved wife and daughters after the war. Marcel's Letters is the incredible story of Carolyn's increasingly desperate search to uncover the mystery of one man's fate during WWII, seeking answers across Germany, France, and the United States. Simultaneously, she continues to work on what would become the acclaimed P22 Marcel font, immortalizing the man and his letters that waited almost seventy years to be reunited with his family"--Provided by publisher.
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Correspondence, Prisoners of war, French Personal narratives, Military History, French, Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft, Conscript labor, World War, 1939-1945, French Penmanship, Graphic artists, Biography, History, World war, 1939-1945, germany, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, french, Penmanship, Graphic arts, Heuzé, Marcel, 1912-1992 -- Correspondence, Porter, Carolyn, Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft -- Biography, World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Germany -- Berlin, World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, French, Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Berlin -- Correspondence, French -- Germany -- Berlin -- Correspondence, Penmanship, French -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century, Graphic artists -- Minnesota -- Biography, Berlin (Germany) -- History, Military -- 20th centuryPlaces
Germany, Berlin, Berlin (Germany), MinnesotaTimes
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Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate
Nov 13, 2018, Skyhorse
paperback
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Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate
2017, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
1510719342 9781510719347
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Marcel's letters: a font and the search for one man's fate
2017, Skyhorse Publishing
in English
1510719334 9781510719330
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