Marcel's letters
Subtitle: a font and the search for one man's fate
By: Carolyn Porter
Contributors: Heuzé, Marcel, 1912-1992, correspondent
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781510719330
Subjects: 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
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : July 2011; title: Letter No. 1: Marienfelde, Germany : March 21; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : August 2011; title: Letter No. 2: Marienfelde, Germany : Sunday the 12th; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : September 2011; title: Wisconsin, Texas, Minnesota : 1980 to 2011; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : October 2011; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : January 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : January 2012; title: Letter No. 3: Marienfelde, Germany : November 3 (1943); title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : February 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : Late February 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : Mid-March 2012; title: Letters No. 4 and 5: Marienfelde, Germany : February 1, 1943; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : Late March 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : April 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota: April 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : Late April 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : May 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : May 21, 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : Late May 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : May 25, 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : June 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : June 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : Late July 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : August 2012; title: Milwaukee, Wisconsin : August 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : Late August 2012; title: Letter No. 6: Marienfelde, Germany : January 17, 1943; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : Late August 2012; title: Letters No. 7, 8, 9: Marienfelde, Germany : January 18, 1943; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : Late August 2012; title: Letters No. 10, 11, 12: Marienfelde, Germany : August 8 (1943); title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : September 2012; title: Letter No. 13: Marienfelde, Germany : September 10 (1943); title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : September 2012; title: Letter No. 14: Paris, France : Wednesday, Noon; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : September 2012; title: Letter No. 15: Marienfelde, Germany : October 21 (1943); title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : September 2012; title: Letters No. 16, 17: Marienfelde, Germany : May 8, 1944; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : September 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : Early October 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : October 2012; title: Paris, France : October 2012; title: Le Plessis-Robinson, France: October 27, 2012; title: Villemomble, France : October 28, 2012; title: Bercheres-La-Maingot, France : October 29, 2012; title: White Bear Lake, Minnesota : January 30, 2014.