Deffence de la langue françoise, pour l'inscription de l'Arc de triomphe [microforme]

Charpentier, François, 1620-1702 · 1676 · Paris : Cl. Bargin · 3 pictures

This is a 1676 Paris imprint by François Charpentier, issued by the publisher Cl. Bargin, defending the French language and its use in the inscription on the Arc de Triomphe for a learned, literate readership. The three pictures are dense pages of small roman type set in two columns with running headers, marginal notes and a few ornamental initials, showing a plain text-only layout. A designer might take from them the tight grey texture of early letterpress text blocks, narrow margins and the dense justified columns as a background or typographic pattern.

Français (Langue) · Classicisme

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