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XEE4190229: Description of different products and uses of paper: portrait of Georges Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon, naturalist and writer (1707-1788) writing his Natural History. Plate “” Le papier et ses produits”” in “” les Recreations instructives”” Synoptique painting by Jules Delbruck, engraving from 1860. Private collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4190263: Description of the various uses and products of sheep: leather working and representation of products of sheepskin, hussard jacket, bellows, gloves, bindings and parchment, wallet and accessories. Plate “” Les moutons”” in “” les Recreations instructives”” Synoptique painting by Jules DELBRUCK, engraving from 1860. Private collection., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4190277: Description of the various jobs and sheep products: young dairy farmers making butter and cheeses in a dairy. Plate “” Les moutons”” in “” les Recreations instructives”” Synoptique painting by Jules DELBRUCK, engraving from 1860. Private collection., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4190329: Description of children's leisure and play: learning adult metiers (sculptor, blacksmith and carpenter) by little boys. Plate “” les jeux de l'enfance”” in “” les Recreations instructives”” Synoptique painting by Jules DELBRUCK, engraving from 1860. Private collection., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4190404: Description of the culture and silk products: a lime in crepe de chine, a velvet coat with lace, silk sleeves and a fancy dress. Plate “” la soie”” in “” les Recreations instructives”” Synoptique painting by Jules DELBRUCK, engraving from 1860. Private collection., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4190830: Italian masterpieces in Paris during the exhibition on Italian Art at the Pete Palais, the works are kept by train stations (Venus de Lorenzo di Credi, a bust of Mussolini, the Angel and Tobie of Pollaiolo, the Holy Family of Michelangelo (Michelangelo). Cover of “” Le petit journal illustrious””” of 02/06/1935. Private Collection, Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4190838: Page for the trip to Moscow of Foreign Minister Pierre Laval for the signing of an assistance pact between France and Russia, view of the military parade in Red Square, an isba in the snowy steppes, the city of Moscow with the Kremlin and scenes of the life of Muscovites. Cover of “” Le petit journal illustrious””” of 26/05/1935. Private Collection, Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4184665: Leipzig's trial: Proces of Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-1934), presumptive incendiary of the Reichstag in Berlin on the night of 27 to 28 February 1933, a few weeks after Adolf Hitler's appointment to the Chancellery. He will be sentenced to the death penalty for “high treason” and Hitler will use the event to establish his dictatorship. Etching on the headline of “” L'illustrious du petit journal””, 1933. Private collection., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4184670: A fireworks display in court: the prestidigitator Monsieur de Rocroy (1890-1962) sued for injuries caused a fireworks display from his hands in front of the judges to demonstrate the safety of his process. Front page engraving of “” L'illustrious du petit journal””, 1933. Private collection., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4184744: Inauguration of the city of Clairvivre (department of the Dordogne in the Aquitaine region), a health centre for veterans in which all French provinces participate in traditional costumes. Etching on the headline of “” L'illustrious du petit journal””, 1933. Private collection., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4184885: Trainers in the footsteps of the gold reserves that Napoleon I Bonaparte allegedly buried during his retirement from Russia have just found a metal chest in the vicinity of Memel in Lithuania. Print on the headline of “” L'illustrious du petit journal””, 1933. Private collection., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4185026: At the threat of volcanoes: volcanic eruption of the crateres of the Andes Cordillera (South America). In the rain of ashes the farmers flee the sinister with their herds. Print on the front page of “” L'illustrious du petit journal””, 1932. Private Collection, Anonymous / Bridgeman Images