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Recit veritable de ce qvi s'est passé en la deffaicte des ennemis rebelles au Roy, venans au secours de Montauban. La quantité des morts & blessés, les noms & qualitez des capitaines tuez & prisonniers. Auec le nombre des enseignes & drapeaux gaignés & enouyés par le Roy à la Royne

1621 · Paris, P. Rocolet · 1 picture

A 1621 French pamphlet printed in Paris by P. Rocolet, reporting a royal defeat of rebel forces marching to relieve Montauban, written for readers following Louis XIII's campaigns. Its single picture is a symmetrical printer's ornament of scrolls, foliage and a central shield-like cartouche, useful to a designer for framing devices, headpieces and decorative borders in early seventeenth-century style.

France -- History -- Louis XIII, 1610-1643 -- Sources

Internet Archive · Fisher - University of Toronto · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library