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XEE4158048: Hundred Years War: The surrender of Calais (1346). The Queen of Angeleterre Philippa de Hainaut (1314-1369), advocates for the bourgeois of Calais before her husband Edward III - Queen Philippa interceding with her Husband Edward III for the Burgesses of Calais - engraving from “” L'histoire de France racontee a mes grandenfants”” - by Francois Guizot - 1872-1876, French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4158085: Death of King Harold II (1022-1066) at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 - Edith Swannesha (Swanneck), known as Edith la Juste (1025-1086) discovers the body of his husband - Ealdgyth (Edith the Fair or Edith Swanneschal), discovering the body of Harold Godwinson (Harold II) - engraving from “The history of France told my grandchildren”” - by Francois Guizot - 1872- 1876, French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4158100: The War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) - Ambassadors of the United Provinces present themselves before Louis XV in 1747 - The War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48) - Louis XV, King of France and the Ambassador of Netherlands - engraving from “” L'histoire de France racontee à mes grandenfants”” - by Francois Guizot - 1872-1876, French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4158252: Attacks against Louis-Philippe I - Le conspiracy de la rue des Prouvaires - On February 1st, 1832, la police sold the legitimist conspiracy dit de rue des Prouvaires - Engraving de 1882 in “” Histoire de dix ans: 1830-1840””” Louis-Blanc (1811-1882), Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4158307: French colony in America: Floridians love the commemorative column erigee by Rene de Laudonniere in memory of the Spanish attacks on the French Protestant colonies in 1564. From a 16th century engraving. In “La Marine et les colonies: commerce”, 1888., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images