Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclesiastique is an 18th-century French church history published in Paris by Jean Mariette, written by Claude-Pierre Goujet and held by the John Carter Brown Library. The pictures are engraved frontispiece-style scenes: a heraldic cartouche with fleur-de-lis and crown framed by scrolling foliage, and a crowded formal court scene with a cardinal presenting a kneeling figure before a seated ruler. A designer could draw on the ornate rococo cartouche borders and the dense, orderly crowd composition of the engraving.
