Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclésiastique is an ecclesiastical history printed in Paris by Jean Mariette, with text by Claude-Pierre Goujet, published in the early eighteenth century for a readership of clergy and learned Catholic readers. Its pictures are black-and-cream engravings: a dense Rococo ornamental border with flower urns and scrollwork, a royal crest with fleurs-de-lis, a strip of repeated foliate ornament, and a dramatic historical scene of a church being pillaged and burned, with a large serif HISTOIRE caption. Designers could borrow the scrollwork, cartouche frames and fleur-de-lis motifs.
