As in the William Smith edition of 1839, the modern French translation of Froissart by Mme de Witt, published by Hachette in 1881, drew on medieval manuscripts of Froissart for many of its illustrations. You can see the original of the illustration above in the online exhibition The Age of King Charles V. The two small pages below show how this printing sometimes mimicked the layout of manuscript pages. Click the small images to see larger versions.
The edition also included many illustrations which drew on contemporary historical and archaeological scholarship: see the example below.
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