📕 Excerpt from Catalogue des Camées Antiques Et Modernes de la Bibliothèque Nationale: Publié Sous les Auspices de l'Académie des Inscriptions Et Belles-LettresPour ce qui est du terme moderne de camée, son origine étymologique est elle bien déterminée? Ce mot, nous disent les dictionnaires contemporains, est emprunté de l'italien cameo, qui a la même origine que l'ancien mot français camaîeu. Mais ce mot camai'eu, d'où vient - il?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.