Plainte de la Nouuelle France dicte Canada, a la France sa Germaine. Pour seruir de factum en vne cause pandente au Conseil
A 1620 French legal pamphlet, printed in Paris or possibly elsewhere by an unnamed publisher, with its author unrecorded, addressed to France and written as a plea concerning New France (Canada) for use as a factum in a case before the Council. The single picture is a heraldic achievement with a crest of a bird-like creature above a shield bearing three small figures and a chevron, flanked by scrolling mantling and a banner inscribed GAUDEO. A designer might take from it the dense, symmetrical armorial layout, with stippled shield field and acanthus-style scrolls, as a model for crest or seal design.
