Arrest du Parlement
Arrest du Parlement is a 1682 legal decree printed in Paris by François Muguet, issued by the Paris Parlement and concerning censorship, aimed at magistrates, booksellers and the public. The one picture is a horizontal woodcut ornament: two seated winged figures flank a central royal coat of arms with fleurs-de-lis, with hanging garlands and leafy branches at each end inside a ruled frame. A designer could take its symmetrical, tightly framed headpiece layout as a model for formal, authoritative page decoration.
