Remarques d'estat et d'histoire, svr la vie et les seruices de monsievr de Villeroy.
Remarques d'estat et d'histoire is a 1618 French historical work by Pierre Matthieu, printed in Rouen by Thomas Mallard, recounting the life and services of Nicolas de Neufville, Seigneur de Villeroy, for a courtly and political readership. The four pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a strapwork border with a central mask, a decorative initial with foliage, a framed cherub-and-face panel, and a border with a bird among scrolls. A designer might take from them the dense, hand-cut vocabulary of acanthus scrolls, masks and flourishes suited to period-style borders and initials.
