TAD1759701: Illustration for book Les Cent Contes drolatiques by Honore de Balzac (1832-1837), engraving by Gustave Dore / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759705: Japanese diplomat with traditionnal suit and headgear, late 19th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759721: Louis XII (1462-1515) French king in 1498-1515, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759727: Coronation of Matthias 1st (1557-1619) emperor of Holy Roman Empire and king of hungary as Matthias II, engraving by de Bry / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759733: Illustration of play Les precieuses ridicules " by Moliere 1659 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759743: The Haussmann Renovations in Paris : clearing of boulevard du Prince-Eugene and destruction of imperial circus, 1862, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759748: Opening of Boulevard du Prince-Eugene in Paris on december 7, 1862 in presence of emperor Napoleon III, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759755: Legislative Assembly in St Cloud (France on december 1st, 1852 : prince Louis Napoleon becoming emperor Napoleon III, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759757: Felice Orsini, an Italian nationalist attempts to assassinate Napoleon III Emperor of the French, 14 January 1858, Paris, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759760: Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) French poet and writer, drawing by Achille Deveria (1800-1857) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759772: Pawnshop in Paris, 1787, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759776: Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (future Napoleon III 1808-1873) in Arenenberg, Switzerland, c. 1828, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759777: Section of French liner Labrador : launched in 1866 under name Nouveau Monde (link with Mexico), renamed Labrador in 1875 (link Le Havre - New York), engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759793: Inexplosive steamboat invented by Mr Gache, France, engraving, 1839 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759830: Reading of sentence condemning marshal Francois Achille Bazaine (here on l) for treachery in 1873, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759843: Steel industry in Le Creusot (France) : rolling mills used to make tracks before 1850, engraving after Bonhomme / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759866: Consul Napoleon Bonaparte becoming emperor Napoleon 1st on may 18, 1804 in Saint-Cloud, France, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759876: Official advertisement of death of George Sand, French writer, 1876 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759877: Title page of book “Servitude et grandeur militaires” by Alfred de Vigny, 1835 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759879: Diner of French Louis XIV at Paris town hall, engraving for 1688 calendar / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759882: Fair of Saint Germain in Paris, 17th century, engraving by Guillaumot / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759895: Cars of german plenipotentiaries near front, ww1 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759899: Laboratory of Pasteur institute in Paris : incubator, engraving after Poyet, c. 1890 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759902: Birth certificate of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759906: Vaccination against rabies : session of inoculation at laboratory of Louis Pasteur, c. 1885, engraving after Emile Bayard / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759917: Louis-Philippe d'Orleans (1773-1850) French king in 1830-1848, here young, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759937: Poster for play An Enemy of the People by HenrikIbsen in Paris, november 1893 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759986: Poster for Christmas of prisoners, France, 1941 (colour litho), Mauzan, Luciano Achille (1883-1952) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759992: French emperor Napoleon III in Beaumont du Perigord (France) 1860, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759995: French emperor Napoleon III and empress Eugenia in Lille (Franc)e in 1867, engraving by Boldoduc / Bridgeman Images

TAD1760004: Jose de San Martin (1778-1850) argentinian general and statesman, Line engraving, 19th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1760008: Suit of Knight Hospitaller (also known as Knights of Rhodes, Knights of Malta, Cavaliers of Malta, and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem) 18th century, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1760014: French king Charles VIII and his iwfe queen Anne of Brittany, 1491-1498, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1760026: Brest (France) : the military harbour, postcard, c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1760029: General View of the harbour of Brest (France) c. 1890, engraving after Blanchard / Bridgeman Images

TAD1760030: Brest, France, c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images