ELD4966173: Les bleus a la pursuit des chouans in “Les chouans”” by Honore de Balzac (Illustration of the novel “Les chouans” by french novelist Honore de Balzac), 1874 (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

KNB4969095: At Evening, 2014 (acrylic on canvas), Kenber, Angie / Bridgeman Images

ELD4966038: Model of 19th century stethoscopes (Early stethoscopes). By Doctor Gerard 1887, 19th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4890082: Representation of Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622-1673), Claude-Emmanuel Lhuillier dit Chapelle (1626-1686) and comedian Michel Boyron dit Michel Baron (1653-1729) with a minimal brother on a boat near Auteuil. 19th century (engraving from "Morale en action par l'histoire" by Muller) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4926527: Hugh Capet elected King - Coronation of Hugues Capet (ca. 941-996), king of France, on July 3, 987 at Noyon, with Adalberon (ca. 925-990), archeveque of Reims. Epinal picture 19th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4926573: The Battle of Denain, 19th century (Epinal print) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4926794: Henry IV at the Battle of Ivry, 19th century (Epinal print) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4927101: Second Crusade of Pastoureaux, 1320: looting of churches and opening of prisons by fanatics. Epinal picture 19th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4927210: The Battle of Taillebourg between the King of France Louis IX and his brother the Count of Poitiers Alphonse against the arms of their vassal revolts, Henry III of England and Hugues X of Lusignan. Epinal picture 19th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4925206: King Henry IV (1553-1610) asking for the price of each thing to be closer of the poors, 1598 Chromolithograph 19th century / Bridgeman Images

ELD4925269: Revolution 1848: Death of the The Archbishop Denis Affre of Paris (1793-1848) on the Barricade at the entrance of the Faubourg Saint Antoine in Paris 26/06/1848 (Do o mon dieu que mon sang soit le dernier verse). 19th century (chromolithograph) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4925432: The knight Bayard (Pierre Terrail) (1476-1524) mortally wounded Rebec on 29 April 1524 while he was covering the retreat of Francois I's French army, answering the connetable of Bourbon who had betrayed the king of France and said “” J'aime mieux etre à ma place que à la votre” (The death of Pierre Terrail de Bayard mortally wounded by an arquebus ball, on April 30, 1524, by his old comrade, Charles, Duke of Bourbon, who was now fighting on the opposite side) Chromolithograph 19th century Private collection / Bridgeman Images

ELD4925447: First Crusade, "God wills it": rallying cry of Peter the Hermit (1050 - 1115) preached the first crusade and told the crowd the sufferings of Christians who were ill-treated by the Turks. 19th century (chromolithograph) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4925658: June 23, 1789: session of deputies assembly chaired by French king Louis XVI clash between Mirabeau and Dreux-Breze after Third Estate proclaim itself as National Assembly and just before the outburst of French revolution. 19th century (chromolithograph) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4928989: Treat of Trausnitz: Roman Emperor Louis IV of the Holy Empire reconciled with Frederic the Bel (1286-1330) in 1325 to make an agreement 13/03/1325 (Emperor Louis IV renewed the old friendship with Frederick I of Austria, and they agreed to rule the Empire jointly, march 1325) Engraving from “Bilder-Gallerie zur allgem” by Rottgem” Eck 1843 Collection private / Bridgeman Images

ELD4930158: Map of France under King Louis XIII between 1589 and 1643 (Map of France at the times of king Louis XIII) Plate from Houze's “Atlas Universel”, 1851 Private collection / Bridgeman Images

ELD4930178: Map of France under King Henry III between 1547 and 1589 (Map of France at the times of king Henry III) Plate from Houze's “Atlas Universel”, 1851 Private collection / Bridgeman Images

ELD4926110: Anglo-Spanish War: King of Spain Philip II (1527-1598) with his confessor Diego de Chaves (1507-1592) listening to the story of Alonso Perez de Guzman (1550-1619) commander of the Armada after the defeat on September 22, 1588 (King of spain Philip II and his confessor Diego de Chaves listening to High Admiral Don Alonso Perez de Guzez de Guzez Man recounts the loss of the Armada on 22 September 1588 to which Philipp II is alleged to have replied: In the name of God, I sent the fleet against the English not against the elements) Engraving 1842 Private collection / Bridgeman Images

ELD4927602: French Revolution - Georges Jacques Danton (1759-1794) exclaiming “” to defeat, we need audacity, and always audacity”” August 1792 (French revolution: Georges Danton speaking “” We need audacity, and yet more audacity, and always audacity! “” August 1792) Chromolithography 19th century Private Collection, French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4927624: I was thinking of Madame answer of an old knight to Queen Marguerite of Provence, wife of Louis IX, who begged him to kill her if she fell to the hands of the sarrazins, 1293 (Queen Margaret of provence asking to a knight to kill her in case she was captured by Saracens 1293) Chromolithography late 19th century Collection privee / Bridgeman Images

ELD4927854: Portrait of Lucrece Borgia (Lucrezia) (1480-1519) Engraving from “” I misteri del vaticano”” by Franco Mistrali 1866, Mistrali, Franco (fl.1843) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4928372: King Charles I hue by the crowd after the failed attempt to arrest the five members of parliament John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, William Strode and Arthur Haselrig 4th of January 1642. 19th century (engraving from “History of the world”) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4837922: 'Le Clermont', first steamboat, 1880 (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4838107: Giovanni Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer and writer, with one of his conquests. 19th century (engraving from "Memoires de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt") / Bridgeman Images

ELD4838461: Erotism and libertinage: illustration of “the new Justine or the misfortunes of virtue”” by Donatien Alphonse Francois (DAF) de Sade, known as the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) representing a young girl deculottee in a wood, between a man binds to a tree and another playing the role of a bandit in a sadomasochist (sadomasochist (sadomasochist)), 19th century - a naked young girl in the woods between a man bound to a tree and another playing the role of a gangster in a sadomasochistic game, illustration for “” Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue”” by French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer marquis de Sade, 19th century Private collection / Bridgeman Images

ELD4931863: Portrait of Bernard de Jussieu (1699-1777), French botanist bringing two cedres from England to Paris in 1734 (Bernard de Jussieu bringing the cedar of Lebanon to Paris, 1734) Engraving from “The Illustrous Universe” 1862 Collection privee / Bridgeman Images

ELD4935933: Drug: An opium smoker (an opium smoker). 19th century (chromolithograph) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4935518: Portrait of King Louis XV (1710-1774) and his favorite Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764). 19th century (engraving from 'L'Alcove des rois' by Beaujoint) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4935717: View of castle of Gaillon, Normandy. 19th century (engraving from “Mysteres des vieux chateaux de France” by Le Francois). / Bridgeman Images

ELD4935899: French revolution: the trial of Gracchus (Francois Noel) Babeuf and Augustin Darthe stabbing themselves as they listen their death sentence on 26 May 1797. 19th century (chromolithograph) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4933605: Christopher Columbus arrested for malfeasance is presented to the Spanish court, 1818-43 (lithograph) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4933700: Portrait of Raphael de Valentin, Planchette and blacksmith Spieghalter striking the skin of sorrow on an anvil - illustration from the novel “The skin of sorrow” by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850). 19th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4933002: Manufacture of cutlery: cast ingot in a mold, 1904 (engraving), Calmettes, Pierre (b.1874) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4938529: View of the Eiffel Tower in Paris 1905 (postcard) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4938893: View of the Pantheon in Paris, c.1910 (postcard) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4934448: Portrait of Gabrielle d'Estrees (1573-1599), favorite of King Henry IV”. 19th century (engraving from “Les alcoves des queines” by Jules Beaujoint) / Bridgeman Images