Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclésiastique is an ecclesiastical history by Claude-Pierre Goujet (1697-1767), printed in Paris by Jean Mariette in 1738 at the sign of the Pillars of Hercules, held by the John Carter Brown Library. The first picture shows armoured men striking a figure beside a stone altar in a Gothic church, a dramatic scene of violence in a sacred setting. The second is an emblematic title device of a muscular Hercules seated on a rock between columns, with the motto HAEC META LABORUM and foliage on either side, useful for ornamental framing and classical allegory.
