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ELD4843808: War of the Gauls: “” The siege of Alesia in 52 BC””” The decisive battle between the army of Jules Cesar and that of Vercingetorix on the site of the current Alise-Sainte-Reine (Alise Sainte Reine)” (Conquest of Gaul, battle of Alesia, 52 BC, fought by an army of the Roman Republic commanded by Julius Caesar, against a confederation of Gaul American tribes united under the leadership of Vercingetorix of the Arverni) Engraving from “Histoire-populaire-de-France” by Lahure, 1866 Collection privee / Bridgeman Images
ELD4885035: Portrait of Eugene Francois Vidocq (1775-1857) famous criminal, adventurer and chief of the crime-detection Surete Nationale as well as the head of the first known private detective agency”” Engraving from” Memoires d'un agent de police”” by Jules Beaujoint, 1869 Private collection / Bridgeman Images
YOU4419465: Statue of Pandora holding the box of Pandora, in Greek mythology it was created by order of Zeus, by Hephaistos, Athena helpers of all the gods of Olympus, then sent to earth in order to punish the human race aided by Promethee, she opened the forbidden box letting escape all the evils of humanity except hope, Marble sculpture of Jean Pierre Cortot (1787-1843). Photography, KIM Youngtae, Lyon, Musee des beaux arts de Lyon., Cortot, Jean-Pierre (1787-1843) / Bridgeman Images
YOU4420113: View of the courtyard of honour and the chapel of the Sorbonne in Paris, the college founded in 1258 by Robert de Sorbon (1201-1274), which became the seat of the faculty of theology of the University of Paris, a chapel built between 1635 and 1642 by the architect Jacques Lemercier (1585-1654), under the egide of Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), the built at the 17th century was enlarged and rebuilt at the end of the 19th century in Louis XIII style by the architect Henri Paul Nenot (1853-1934), French Religious and Civil Architecture. Photography, KIM Youngtae, Paris. / Bridgeman Images