Les Origines de la langue françoise [microforme]
Les Origines de la langue françoise is a 1650 Paris etymological treatise on the French language by Gilles Ménage, printed by A. Courbé for scholars and readers of French. Its pictures are small black-and-white decorative headpieces and ornaments built from symmetrical scrolls, flowers, and birds around a central urn, a reference for designers wanting period cartouche and ornament forms.
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