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LSE4327242: In Noisy Le Sec, where a terrible accident occurred during the night, the old men suffering from the cold lit the stove, forgetting to close the lid, letting the carbon dioxide escape that caused them to suffocate. Engraving in "Le petit journal" 17/3/1901. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327724: The Battle of Valmy (20 September 1792), at the foot of the mill, the two leaders of the French Republican army, Charles Dumouriez (1739-1823) and Francois Kellermann (1735-1820) gathered their troops and repelled the Prussian invaders, to the victorious cry of "live the nation”. Engraving in "Le petit journal" 20/9/1903. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327789: Meeting at Arrabal, in Paris, March 19, 2008 (from left to right) the presence of: Claire Rado (artist), Andre Stas (Belgian painter and collagist), Olivier O. Olivier (painter), Fernando Arrabal (playwright), Fanchon Daemers (singer and musicologist), Penelope Chevillard, Bovnella Eruli (academic), Luuli ve Arrabal, and the three people of dos, Thieri Foulc (artist), Gustavo Korsatz and Dominique Lacaze (mathematician and economist). Photography Leonard de Selva, Paris 2008. / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327559: In St. John's of Newfoundland, nine boats caught nearly 100,000 seals, the hunt begins in February, while the small seals are well developed but not yet strong enough to flee, so the massacre begins, the young seals are stunned and still alive for the most part, on site, then their skin with fat adherent is transported into the vessels. Engraving in "Le petit journal" 15/6/1902. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327566: At the Mont-de-Piete (Mont de Piete), a financial institution in Paris, created in the 17th century, to allow the most destitute to escape the loan sharks by making pawn loans; the illustration shows the store rooms where the pawn items are stored, as well as the sales room where the auctioneer is responsible for selling the items which have not been withdrawn after one year of deposit. Engraving in "Le petit journal" 29/6/1902. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327583: A 6-year-old child saves four people from drowning, near Gueret on the Thaurion (or Taurion, a tributary of Vienna), their boat capsized because of the current and the boy hastened to give them a pole to pull them out of the water. Engraving in "Le petit journal" 13/7/1902. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327617: A six-year-old girl, travelling alone on the Frankfurt-Mulhouse train, with a sign around her neck indicating the address of her destination, like a live parcel, was arrested by the German police in Berlin. Engraving in "Le petit journal" 19/10/1902. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327938: Two scenes of martyrdom presented in the pavilion of Catholic missions at the Paris Universal Exhibition, the first depicts the martyrdom of evangelizers in North Africa and the second in the Extreme East. Engraving in "Le pelerin" 3/06/1900. Selva Collection., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327942: The last assault and capture of Pekin, on August 18, 1900, by international troops (French and Russian troops), delivating the foreign legations besieged by boxers and reduced to famine for more than two months. Engraving in "Le pelerin" 2/09/1900. Selva Collection., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327943: By order of the mayor of Reims, Charles Arnould, the Cross on the wall of the school on Rue du Jard, was decrochee, provoking numerous protests, in the context of the progressive lacisation of State institutions. Engraving in "Le pelerin" 24/06/1900. Selva Collection., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327453: The French colony of Kobe (Japan) has just raised a monument to the Caravan crew, collided with a Japanese cruiser; on the day of the inauguration of the stele, the local population and the authorities came to express their sympathy and respect by laying commemorative wreaths of flowers. Engraving in "Le petit journal" 27/10/1901. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327489: A child abduction in Pont-a-Mousson, on the way to school, a 10-year-old girl is abducted by a couple of itinerant basket merchants, a winemaker, witness of the scene, jumps in pursuit of the trailer gun from her beche to pick up the child. Engraving in "Le petit journal" 2/2/1902. Selva Collection., Yrondy, Charles Gaston (1885-1960) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327533: On the Isle of Wight (England), a brig failed at St. Catherine was demembre by the storm and barrels of wine and brandy were thrown on the beach, in the morning a crowd of men and women took hold of the barrels and started drinking and filling all kinds of containers. Engraving in "Le petit journal" 27/4/1902. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images