Written form : memory in perilPosté par Gflu le 11.03.05 à 12:21
Help needed ! If you feel sensitized by the history of letter forms, characters punches and poinçons, please sign this petition :"The French government is currently engaged in selling off various buildings and businesses of the Imprimerie nationale Group, a commercial limited-liability company in which the French state is sole shareholder. This is being done with no thought to any separate solution to preserve its historic heritage - part of which is covered by a preservation requirement, being classified as a "historic monument" - other than to pack it into crates for permanent storage. This move is scheduled for the first half of 2005, destination unknown. (...) The historic collection it holds - due to be so dispatched - is a unique, priceless testimony of the history of the written form, from the 16th century to the present. It includes the Cabinet des poinçons, or Punch Room, holding hundred of thousands of letterform and character punches, for both western and oriental scripts; functional workshops - a foundry, presses for typography, lithography and copper-plate engraving work, stitching and binding - as well as a library with over 30,000 volumes, and the archives of the State printing works (...)". Complete facts and petition. LINK Commentaires
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