I'd really like see this Grolier exhibit, which celebrates historical French types of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Unfortunately, the slide show provided by the NTY

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/12/24/arts/design/20111224Type.htm...

is scant of images of the faces. It does show the very French 'Jaugeon'. If I don't get to New York, I'll console myself with Updike.

Great event!

pjay: If you'd like to see more of that super-classy old
French stuff (preferably over a flute of Veuve Clicquot :-)
you could find a copy of the not-too-rare "Les Caractères
de l'Imprimerie Nationale" or the fabulous -and quite rare-
"Origines de l'imprimerie en France" of 1900.

hhp