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RMERGT08–Monarchy in French history: the coronation banquet of Louis XV held in the Grand Dining Room of the Archiepiscopal Palace.
RM2JYY3WA–architectural plan for the conversion of the Palace of Versailles to become a Musee for French History. Ordered by King Louis Phillipe. The museum was located in the Aile du Midi (South Wing), which during the Ancien Regime had been used to lodge the members of the royal family. It was begun in 1833 and inaugurated on 30 June 1837. Its most famous room is the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles), which lies on most of the length of the second floor
RM2B1YXKE–GREAT FLOOD 1910 ARCHIVE PARIS FRANCE Vintage historic great flood French 1900’s stylish postcard of one of the great natural catastrophes in Parisian and French history: the Great Flood of January 1910, the likes of which Paris had not seen since 1658. Torrential rain and snow floods most of Paris France
RM2A5YW10–Portrait of Antonie Etex by Thomas Couture (1815-1879) French history painter and teacher. He attended Arts et Métiers Paris Tech. Dated 1850
RME13C3J–Feb. 29, 2012 - Four Centuries Of French History Are Evocated By Sacha Guitry in Versailles: Yesterday at Versailles the final act of Sacha Guitry's new film entitled ''St Versailles M'etait Conte'' was shot. A scene where the figurants are coming down the huge staircase of the orangerie in ersailles.
RM2D5JP88–Jean Alaux, called 'le Romain' ('the Roman'), (1786 – 2 March 1864) was a French history painter and Director of the French Academy in Rome from 1846–
RMT51A2P–The Victory Allegorical Statue inside courtyard of Hotel Carnavalet - now the Museum of French History, les Marais, Paris France
RMW58GGK–Essays on French history: The rise of the reformation in France , The club of the Jacobins : Farmer, James Eugene, 1867-1915
RMKD6NEH–Daily life in French history: a hurdy-gurdy player / street musician in 18th century Paris, France. Working class, poor, rustic, livelihood, during reign of Louis XV. Trade, tradesmen, commerce, merchandise.
RMPKDF2H–Jacques Dumont, 'le Romain' (1704 - 1781), French history and portrait painter. Portrait of Jacques Dumont Le Romain Playing the Guitar by Maurice Quentin de La Tour
RMCWB21J–Marshal Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre (1852-1931), member of the French general staff at the outbreak of World War I, ca. 1914
RMCRDPBC–Paris, France, Tourists Visiting Art Galleries, French History Paintings, inside the 'Chateau de Versailles', French Castle
RFBX81DH–Considered one of the best generals in French history, Marshal Turenne was one of Louis XIV's greatest marshals.
RM2J2JX8B–Poster Art by Eugene Grasset. Art Nouveau - Jugend - Belle Epoque. Vintage poster. Histoire De France (1895) French History. Par Victor Duruy.
RMERGNJ3–French history: ascent of a Montgolfier hot air balloon. Crowd marvelling at technical / scientific progress in 18th century
RM2JYY3WB–architectural plan for the conversion of the Palace of Versailles to become a Musee for French History. Ordered by King Louis Phillipe. The museum was located in the Aile du Midi (South Wing), which during the Ancien Regime had been used to lodge the members of the royal family. It was begun in 1833 and inaugurated on 30 June 1837. Its most famous room is the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles), which lies on most of the length of the second floor
RM2D4K04J–GREAT FLOOD PARIS 1910 La Rue du Bac PARIS FRANCE Vintage archive historic French 1900’s stylish postcard of one of the great natural catastrophes in Parisian and French history: the Great Flood of January 1910, the likes of which Paris had not seen since 1658. Torrential rain and snow floods most of Paris France
RMW35H6E–Interior of National Archives Building, former Hotel de Soubise, museum of french history, Paris, France.
RMM92WJG–Marie Louise, 1791 – 1847. Austrian archduchess, Duchess of Parma and Empress of the French, from 1810 to 1814 as Napoleon's second wife. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915
RM2D5JP8N–Leon Cogniet (1794 – 1880) was a French history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than one hundred notable
RMT51A2W–The Victory Allegorical Statue inside courtyard of Hotel Carnavalet - now the Museum of French History, les Marais, Paris France
RM2A2P7CH–Unknown (French), History of the Habitations of Man by Ch. Garnier, Universal Exposition, Paris, 1889, albumen print, Image: 4 5/8 × 7 1/8 inches (11.7 × 18.1 cm
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RM2A17MHM–Alfred Dreyfus (1859 – 1935) French artillery officer of Jewish faith and ancestry whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most controversial political dramas in modern French history.
RFBX81A2–Considered one of the best generals in French history, Marshal Turenne was one of Louis XIV's greatest marshals.
RM2AGTEMX–Imperial calendar for 1853. Napoleon III proclaims emperor by the grateful French. History of France, old engraved illustration image from the book Hi
RMERGT06–French history: ascent of a Montgolfier hot air balloon. Crowd marvelling at technical / scientific progress in 18th century
RM2JYY0AF–Caricature Illustration depicting a comparison of fashion parades through 120 years of French history. 'Le Rire' magazine 1902
RMW35GFM–Interior of National Archives Building, former Hotel de Soubise, museum of french history, Paris, France.
RMJAHN9T–Map of France at the accession of Philip II, aka Philip Augustus,1180. From France, Mediaeval and Modern A History, published 1918.
RF2C60KA5–Felix Jules Meline (1838 – 1925) was a French statesman, prime minister from 1896 to 1898.
RMBG8J47–French Revolutionary Wars. French troops commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte during the Egyptian campaign, 1798-1801.
RM2D807JK–The Victory Allegorical Statue inside courtyard of Hotel Carnavalet - now the Museum of French History, les Marais, Paris, France
RM2X1T65K–René Just Haüy, known as Abbé Haüy, French priest and mineralogist, professor at the Museum of Natural History, 1743-1822. Woodcut by Huyot after a portrait by Philibert-Louis Debucourt from Paul Lacroix's Directoire, Consulat et Empire, (Directory, Consulate and Empire), Paris, 1884.
RM2A17MGJ–Alfred Dreyfus (1859 – 1935) French artillery officer of Jewish faith and ancestry whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most controversial political dramas in modern French history. Alfred Dreyfus in his room on Devil's Island in 1898
![The early 1900s caption reads: “LOUIS IX. AND THE PRISONERS FREED AT HIS CORONATION.—This celebrated king [ruled 1226 to his death in 1270] came to the throne as a little child, and his wise mother won him instant popularity by liberating all the unfortunate people held in jail throughout France, most of them prisoners for debt. The delight of the child king, the humble and bewildered gratitude of the men and women grown old in hopeless confinement, are touchingly portrayed in this well-known picture of the French artist Lesur.” Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2X0JW89/the-early-1900s-caption-reads-louis-ix-and-the-prisoners-freed-at-his-coronationthis-celebrated-king-ruled-1226-to-his-death-in-1270-came-to-the-throne-as-a-little-child-and-his-wise-mother-won-him-instant-popularity-by-liberating-all-the-unfortunate-people-held-in-jail-throughout-france-most-of-them-prisoners-for-debt-the-delight-of-the-child-king-the-humble-and-bewildered-gratitude-of-the-men-and-women-grown-old-in-hopeless-confinement-are-touchingly-portrayed-in-this-well-known-picture-of-the-french-artist-lesur-2X0JW89.jpg "The early 1900s caption reads: “LOUIS IX. AND THE PRISONERS FREED AT HIS CORONATION.—This celebrated king [ruled 1226 to his death in 1270] came to the throne as a little child, and his wise mother won him instant popularity by liberating all the unfortunate people held in jail throughout France, most of them prisoners for debt. The delight of the child king, the humble and bewildered gratitude of the men and women grown old in hopeless confinement, are touchingly portrayed in this well-known picture of the French artist Lesur.” Stock Photo")
RF2X0JW89–The early 1900s caption reads: “LOUIS IX. AND THE PRISONERS FREED AT HIS CORONATION.—This celebrated king [ruled 1226 to his death in 1270] came to the throne as a little child, and his wise mother won him instant popularity by liberating all the unfortunate people held in jail throughout France, most of them prisoners for debt. The delight of the child king, the humble and bewildered gratitude of the men and women grown old in hopeless confinement, are touchingly portrayed in this well-known picture of the French artist Lesur.”
RM2X3WF5H–Vintage illustration, Napoleon Bonaparte on his horse, Marengo, 1814, French history, 19th Century
RMERGT1X–Daily life in French history: a lantern seller in 18th century Paris, France. Working class, poor, rustic, livelihood, during
RMW35GEA–Interior of National Archives Building, former Hotel de Soubise, museum of french history, Paris, France.
RMRB6500–(Marie Joseph Louis) Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877) French politician and historian. Lithograph, Paris, c1840.
RF2CTBB98–Vector of celebrities of La Belle Epoque. France Jean Jaures (1859 – 1914), was a French Socialist leader. Initially a moderate republican, he was lat
RMT6744N–History by Polybius. Volume IV. Frontispiece. French edition translated from Greek by Dom Vincent Thuillier. Comments of Military Science enriched with critical and historical notes by M. De Folard. Paris, chez Pierre Gandouin, Julien-Michel Gandouin, Pierre-Francois Giffart and Nicolas-Pierre Armand, 1728.
RM2A4A0G9–The Queen of France Marie Leszczynska (1703-1768) as Junon 1731 Marble by Guillaume COUSTOU 1677 - 1746, France, French.
RM2AP1PPC–Leather-bound record books - historical archives in the Musée de l'Histoire de France - Museum of French History, Hotel Soubise, Paris, France
RMM4W51D–French minister of state, Napoleonic era. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852.
RF2D5HNPT–Joan of Arc at Orleans. In 1429, the future Charles VII of France was still the Dauphin. His father had died seven years earlier, but Charles had still not been crowned. Charles asked God for guidance and direction as to his being the true heir, a message that a French girl named Joan (1412-1431) would bring to him and say was from God. In April 1429, Charles gave Joan of Arc (as she came to be known) permission to lead French troops to free the city of Orleans from English control. Joan (seen here at Orleans) was wounded by an arrow as she helped her fellow soldiers set up a scaling wall fo
RMERGRYH–Daily life in French history: the education of children by a schoolmaster in 18th century France.
RMW35HDN–Antique boxes in Interior of National Archives Building, former Hotel de Soubise, museum of french history, Paris, France.
RMMAP824–Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes (1748-1836) or Abbe Sieyes. French clergyman and political writer. Engraving, 19th cent.
RF2CC4B52–Emile Loubet (1838 – 1929) was the 45th Prime Minister of France and later President of the French Republic (1899–1906).
RMT67464–History by Polybius. Volume V. Frontispiece. French edition translated from Greek by Dom Vincent Thuillier. Comments of Military Science enriched with critical and historical notes by M. De Folard. Paris, chez Pierre Gandouin, Julien-Michel Gandouin, Pierre-Francois Giffart and Nicolas-Pierre Armand, 1729.
RMW1P33X–Louis Simon Boizot's 'Victory' Sculpture in the garden of Musee Carnavalet - now the Museum of French History, Marais, Paris France
RMJ8P6H4–Map of France by the Treaty of Bretigny, 1360. From France, Mediaeval and Modern A History, published 1918.
RF2E53A5X–Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincare (1860 – 1934) was a French statesman who served three times as 58th Prime Minister of France, and as President of Fran
RMM4W51N–French page boy, Napoleonic era. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852.
RM2RH66Y6–Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). French military and political leader. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of France (1804-1815). Portrait. Engraving by Geoffroy. 'Historia Universal', by Cesar Cantu. Volume VI. 1857.
RF2ET72GK–This image shows Dante meeting Matilda, by the painter A Maignan. At the end of Purgatorio, Dante meets Matilda in the earthly paradise. Matilda clearly prepares Dante for his meeting with Beatrice the woman to whom (historically) Dante dedicated his previous poetry, the woman at whose request Virgil was commissioned to bring Dante on his journey, and the woman who allegorically symbolizes the path to God. Albert Pierre René Maignan (1845 –1908) was a French history painter and illustrator.
RMERG6HF–Daily life in French history: the education of children by a schoolmaster in 18th century France.
RMDYEBRA–scene from the Bayeux Tapestry an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres (230 ft) long, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings in 1066
RMA64PJE–Louis Joliet mourning the death of Father Jacques Marquette in Michigan returning from a mission to the Illinois Indians 1675. Hand-colored woodcut
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