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Théodore de Bèze's illustrated biographies of Protestant reformers and scholars, translated into French with Simon Goulart's additions and printed by Jean de Laon in Geneva in 1581 for Reformed readers across Europe. Woodcut profile portraits sit in oval frames surrounded by strapwork, fruit garlands, masks and putti, alongside forty-four emblem plates showing landscapes, fire and small figures inside heavy cartouches usable as ready-made borders and frame stock.
