Arrest du Conseil d'État du roi, qui accorde une modération des droits d'entrée à Paris sur les gazes : du 8 juillet 1781 : extrait des registres du Conseil d'Etat
This is a 1781 Paris official decree of the French royal Conseil d'Etat, printed by Pierre-Guillaume Simon, printer to the Parlement, granting a reduction in entry duties on gauze fabrics. The one picture is an ornamental headpiece with a central shield bearing fleurs-de-lis, topped by a crown and flanked by scrolling foliage, a cartouche, and a small bundle of goods, which a designer could take as a model for symmetrical 18th-century French cartouche and scroll ornament.
