Description des feux d'artifices faits a l'honneur du roy a Lille : par vn nouveau témoignage du zele de messieurs du Magistrat, ensuite de la venuë de Sa Majesté en cette ville, & de la rejouissance publique de la paix, l'an 1680
A 1680 Lille printed description of fireworks staged to honour Louis XIV during his visit and the public celebration of the Peace of Nijmegen, issued by the printer Jean Chrisostome Malte for the city's magistrates. The engravings show allegorical emblem plates with Latin mottoes and a large fireworks display set-piece with statues, urns and flaming pillars, offering a designer ornate baroque cartouches, figure poses and festival architecture.
