Les réjoüissances de la paix, faites dans la ville de Lyon le 20. mars 1660
A 1660 French festival book by Claude-François Menestrier, with engravings by Nicolas Auroux, Guillaume Barbier and Jacques Justet, published in Lyon to record the celebrations of the Peace of the Pyrenees for a French readership. The four engraved plates show symmetrical fireworks machines: classical stone arches topped with sculpted figures, pedestals, eagles and mascarons, with streaming rockets drawn as radiating lines and stars. A designer could take the arch-and-pedestal framework, the radiating burst patterns and the decorative pediments as ready models for ornament and stage structure.
