Les vignettes parlantes
Les vignettes parlantes is a French children's picture book by the Swiss pastor César Malan, published in 1841 by the Société du bon dépôt, a Protestant religious publisher, for young readers. Its small wood-engraved vignettes show genteel couples, family groups and a preacher-like figure addressing a seated crowd, with simple outdoor and domestic settings. A designer might take their tight, hatched line work and neat small-scale scenes as a model for compact narrative illustration.
