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XEE4153111: Salome Receiving the Head of St. John the Baptist - The feast of Herode - (Herod banquet) Banquet de Herode (Herode Antipas) during which the daughter of Herodiade (Salome) demands the head of Jean-Baptiste (Jean Baptiste) on a tray to offer it to his mother - “” Holy History””” circa 1890 - colour engraving by Henri Grobet, Grobet, Henri (active c.1890) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4172447: Scene of the history of France in toys: Assassination of the Duke of Guise at the castle of Blois. King Henry III (1574-1589) looks at the dead body of the Duke of Guise (Henri I of Lorraine, Duke of Guise called the Scalafre, 1550-1588) whom he had murdered on 23 December 1588 during the War of Religion. In “” Joujoux a l'histoire: la France staged with the Joujoux de deux petits Francais””. Illustration of Job (Jacques-Marie Gaston Onfray and Breville) (1858-1931) 1908. Privee Collection., Job, pseudonym for Onfray de Breville, Jacques (1858-1931) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4172125: The Terror during the French Revolution: The royalist movement of “Companions of Jesus and the Sun” executed the Jacobin detenus of Tarascon prison by throwing them from the top of a tower on May 25, 1793. Engraving from 1889. Private collection., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4170751: History of Gaul: Pillage of a Gallic monastery by the Normans. in “Histoire de France learned by image and direct observation. Preparatory Course and First Year of Elements Course.”” GUESSING - TOURSEL. Illustrations by Ferdinand Raffin. 1923. DR, Raffin, Ferdinand (1870?-1948) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4170944: The violent games of childhood by Bertrand Duguesclin (1320-1380). The future Connetable of France fighting and his comrades coming to his rescue. in “Histoire de France learned by image and direct observation. Preparatory Course and First Year of Elements Course.”” GUESSING - TOURSEL. Illustrations by Ferdinand Raffin. 1923. DR, Raffin, Ferdinand (1870?-1948) / Bridgeman Images