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Harangve faicte av Roy par Messievrs de la Court de Parlement : sur la rupture des prisons du grand Chastelet faite la nuict du Lundy 13. Iuin 1616

France. Parlement (Paris) · 1616 · [S.l. : s.n.] · 1 picture

A 1616 French harangue addressed to the king by the Paris Parlement, concerning the breaking of the Grand Châtelet prisons, printed without a named publisher and held by the Boston Public Library; its subjects are Louis XIII and Marie de Médicis. The single picture is a large decorative woodcut initial S, filled with interlaced scrollwork, leafy tendrils and curled foliage, a useful model for historical ornament and border-making.

Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643 · Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642

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