The universal jewelry of August in Winter“August in Winter is a paradox, but also a reflection of my fundamentally optimistic state of mind,” says Marie-Aurore Leclerc, a recently converted jeweler in her forties. After a career as a fashion designer, now at the bench, she returns to her first love: jewelry and literature. She was considering writing words hidden inside her first pieces just before reading “The Hands of Louis Braille” by author and sculptor Hélène Jousse: “A poignant story and revolutionary writing that I wanted to learn!” She then began hammering the signs onto a silver pendant. The result