Connoissances les plus nécessaires tirées de l'étude de la nature et des arts et métiers : destinées à la jeunesse du moyen âge
A French educational primer of 1781 by Jean-Frédéric Simon and Jean Schweighäuser, published by Thurneissen in Strasbourg for young readers, offering basic knowledge drawn from nature, crafts and trades. Its small woodcut vignettes show rococo ornament: a seated figure holding a ring and staff on a scrolled pedestal, a framed oval with flowers and foliage, and a shell-like cartouche with C-scrolls and leaves, a set of ornaments a designer could borrow for decorative borders and headers.
