PCT4271600: Notre Dame de Paris (Notre-Dame) in 1482: west facade and parvis. Engraving by F. Meaulle, based on a drawing by Viollet le Duc (Viollet-le-Duc) illustrating the eponymous novel by Victor Hugo, edition Ollendorff beginning 20th century. At the bottom left, in a white dress, the Bohemian Esmeralda with her goat is distinguished. Extract from the text: “Three important things are missing today on this facade: first, the level of eleven steps that once raised it above the ground; then, the lower series of statues that occupied the niches of the three portals and the upper series of twenty-eight oldest kings of France which filled the gallery on the first floor...”, Meaulle, Fortune Louis (1844-1901) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4274575: Victor Hugo “” Les Miserables”” Illustration of Lix engraved by Meaulle: the Forcat and the Eveque. Jean Valjean, to whom the eveque Myriel offered the hospital, will commit his last flight: the silverware of his host. On the table, the two silver candlesticks, instruments of destiny that the eveque will offer to Valjean. He will keep them until his death., Meaulle, Fortune Louis (1844-1901) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4159314: First Ethiopian Italian War - The negus Menelik II (1844-1913) sovereign of Ethiopia, victor at the Battle of Adoua in 1896 against Italian colonial troops. Engraving in “” Le petit journal”” 28/8/1898 - engraving after the painting exhibition Salon de 1898 by Paul Buffet - Menelik II (1844-1913) King (Negus) of Ethiopia from 1889. Menelik at the Battle of Adowa (Adua) 1 March 1896. Ethiopia defeated Italy. First Italo-Ethiopian War., Meaulle, Fortune Louis (1844-1901) / Bridgeman Images