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Histoire ecclésiastique.

Goujet, Claude-Pierre, 1697-1767 · 1691 · A Paris : Chez Jean Mariette, ruë Saint Jacques, aux Colomnes d'Hercules · 4 pictures

Histoire ecclésiastique is a French ecclesiastical history by Claude-Pierre Goujet, printed in Paris by Jean Mariette in the eighteenth century for a learned Catholic readership. Its four pictures are small decorative headpieces and tailpieces of flowers, scrolls, drapery and a Hercules emblem, plus one crowded scene of robed clergy and a fallen crowd before a walled town, offering a designer ornamental borders and a dramatic historical composition.

Imprint 1738

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