Liberté de la langue françoise dans sa pureté [microforme]
A 1651 French-language treatise by the historian Scipion Dupleix, published in Paris by D. Bechet, defending the purity of the French language, and apparently aimed at scholars and readers of French. The pictures are historiated and ornamental typographic devices: a large decorative initial I and M framed by dense black foliage, plus strips of scrollwork tailpieces that a designer could borrow for baroque-style initials, dividers and page borders.
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![Picture 4 of 7 from Liberté de la langue françoise dans sa pureté [microforme] (1651), leaf 9](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-fre_b1886967-9-0.webp)
![Picture 5 of 7 from Liberté de la langue françoise dans sa pureté [microforme] (1651), leaf 9](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-fre_b1886967-9-1.webp)
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