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La Vie de Mademoiselle Le Gras : fondatrice et première supérieure de la Compagnie des Filles de la Charité, Servantes des pauvres malades

Gobillon, Nicolas, m. 1710 · 1676 · Paris : A. Pralard · 10 pictures

A 1676 Paris biography by Nicolas Gobillon of Louise de Marillac, founder of the Daughters of Charity, printed by A. Pralard for a devout readership. The pictures are small woodcut tailpieces and ornaments: a scrolled cartouche, a bell-shaped floral spray repeated twice, and a mask-headed shield with volutes, cut in bold black line with simple shading that suits decorative borders and headers.

Louise de Marillac, sainte, 1591-1660 · Filles de la charité de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul · Saintes chrétiennes

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