Issued in two styles, légère (1902) and the
heavier allongée (shown) [Klingspor-Museum],
Française is basically a narrow version of
Auriol.
Used for Félicien Champsaur’s Orgie latine (1903) and
for Henri de Régnier’s La canne de jaspe (1905), it
was quickly endorsed in bibliophile circles. At least the
légère came with
Greek caps. [Corpus
typographique français] Different showings suggest there were
alternates for ‘vwz’.
A phototype version is shown as Auriol Condensed by
Typeshop. [Typeshop c.
1977]
Alcibiades (Scriptorium, 1993) is a rough
digitization of the light weight. The allongée was
probably the inspiration More…
Issued in two styles, légère (1902) and the heavier allongée (shown) [Klingspor-Museum], Française is basically a narrow version of Auriol. Used for Félicien Champsaur’s Orgie latine (1903) and for Henri de Régnier’s La canne de jaspe (1905), it was quickly endorsed in bibliophile circles. At least the légère came with Greek caps. [Corpus typographique français] Different showings suggest there were alternates for ‘vwz’.
A phototype version is shown as Auriol Condensed by Typeshop. [Typeshop c. 1977]
Alcibiades (Scriptorium, 1993) is a rough digitization of the light weight. The allongée was probably the inspiration to Tarragon (Letraset, 1981) and, more directly, 1906 Fantasio Auriol Title (GLC, 2010).
