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PCT4292664: Naples, Italy (Napoli, Italia): chiostro maiolicato, monastero di Santa Chiara - majolic cloister (of faience) of the monastery of Santa Chiara, mid-18th century - majolic decorees of mythological scenes, landscape and polychrome maritime, due to the ceramists Donato and Giuseppe Massa - Neptune, god of the waters and the Sea on her tank with dolphins, sirenes and angelots - Photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4292782: Grenoble (Isere, Dauphine): International exhibition of white coal and tourism in 1925 - illuminations of the monumental door and orientation tower (Perret tower) - Built by brothers Auguste (1874-1954) and Gustave (1876-1952) Perret, 95 metres high and nearly 8 metres wide at the base, this tower, built in 1924, is the first weapon concrete tower built in Europe - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293057: Illustration for “” Les Liaisons dangereuses””, epistolaire novel by Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803). Volume 2, lettre 125 - Engraving by Mademoiselle (Miss) Marguerite Gerard - “” You m'II listen, I want it. You have to run, you have to. No, she cried.” - Erotism, libertinage, erotic literature, libertine - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293084: Illustration for “” Les Liaisons dangereuses””, epistolaire novel by Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803). Volume 1, lettre 47 - Engraving by Charles Monnet (1732 - 1808) - Valmont writing a letter on the naked body (the back, the thigh) of Emilie: “I have found pleasant to send to my beautiful devote a letter written from the bed of a girl” - Erotism, libertinage, erotic literature, libertine - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4295517: Cerdagne electric railway line: construction of the Gisclard bridge (or bridge of La Cassagne), crossing the Tet valley near Mont-Louis and Fontpedrouse, just after its construction: pilar and shrouds - Roussillon, Catalan country, Pyrenees-Orientales (Pyrenees Orientales) - this line opened in 1910, has been registered by UNESCO since 2002 on the indicative list of the World Heritage as “” Cerdagne Railway””. Operated by SNCF, it forms the 669 000 line of the national railway network - This cable bridge was designed by Genie Commander Albert Gisclard. A device of his invention completely avoids oscillations and allows the train to pass safely. It is the only railway suspension bridge still in operation in France. Tragic irony of fate, Commander Gisclard lost his life in a derailment of the train during a test trip near the bridge in 1909 - phototyping Labouche, early 20th century - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4295626: Article by A. Laynaud in ' Le Journal Illustre' No. 111 (end of March 1866) on a cholera epidemic in the city of Jeddah (Jeddah), Saudi Arabia, port on the banks of the Red Sea and the gate of Mecca - evocation of the massacres of 1858 (massacre of Christian residents), Turkish health commission, Muslim pelerins, Islam - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4295719: Phone combination: vintage Socotel s63 orange telephone with rotating dial - This model of wired telephone with its earphone, has become emblematic (iconic, icon). It was manufactured from 1963 to 1985, declined in many shades - years 60 (1960), 70 (1970) and 80 (1980), ixties, seventies, eighties, telephony operator, telecommunications, France-Telecom (France Telecom) - Photo Patrice Cartier - see also GUT8894, GUT8895 and GUT8896 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4295773: Human skeleton exhibits in a museum: the young girl of the Cheix from a burial of the Neolithic, It is the oldest skeleton known in Auvergne (around 4700 years before the Christian era) - body, death, prehistory - Musee Bargoin de Clermont-Ferrand - Photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4295787: Human skeleton exhibits in a museum: the young girl of the Cheix from a burial of the Neolithic, It is the oldest skeleton known in Auvergne (around 4700 years before the Christian era) - body, death, prehistory - Musee Bargoin de Clermont-Ferrand - Photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images