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XEE4188234: Round the world by plane organized by the Aero Club of America: portraits of Jules Verne (Phileas Fogg), Gaston Stiegler, Jager Schmidt, John Henry (John Henry) Mears and Commodore de Beaumont. Cover of “” Le petit journal””” of 13/06/1920. Private Collection, Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4170038: Louis XIV marries Francoise d? Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon (winter 1683/84) - Secret marriage of King Louis XIV (1638-1715) and Francoise d'Aubigne Marquise de Maintenon (Madame de Maintenon 1635-1719). Engraving in “Histoire des Papes-Rois-Queen and Empereurs a travers les centuries”” by Maurice Lachatre, 1863., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4192153: Louis XVI (1754-1793) visiting the first potato field in the plain of the Sablons (present-day avenue de la Grande Armee, Paris), Antoine Augustin Parmentier (1737-1813) offered him potato flowers, around 1785. Engraving in “” La Nature. Revue des sciences et de ses applications aux arts et a l'industrie”, 1886., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images