Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclésiastique is an ecclesiastical history printed in Paris by Jean Mariette, with text by Claude-Pierre Goujet, for a learned readership interested in church history. Its pictures are engraved plates: one a heraldic cartouche with a crowned shield of fleurs-de-lis flanked by bookshelves and scrolling ornament, the other a ceremonial scene of a crowned king with clergy and armoured guards at a church doorway. A designer could draw on the ornate baroque cartouche framing and the crisp, dense line work of the ceremonial crowd.
