Juliette Flécheux In 2019, the sudden death of Bernard Arin, the last director of the typographic and calligraphic workshop of the Scriptorium of Toulouse, reinforces the urgency to share this history whose discontinuous activity and closure more than fifteen years ago led to the oblivion and dispersion of its archives.
In France, the activity of the Scriptorium de Toulouse was decisive for the French typographic creation, marked by great changes that had placed it in a critical situation. Indeed, the Scriptorium de Toulouse not only reintroduced and defended the teaching of the written and drawn letter, but also played a key role in the revival of the typographic creation acted, in extremis, in 1982 by Jack Lang, Minister of Culture.