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PCT4288589: Costa Brava, Catalonia, Spain - Bay of Sant Feliu de Guixols, fishing boats and hermitage of Sant Elm. From the top of this promontory, journalist Ferran Agullo invented the term Costa Brava in 1908 while contemplating the coast - Postcard beginning 20th century - Photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4288608: Cadaques: Portlligat (Port Lligat) - In front of the house of the painter Salvador Dali (Casa Dali) you can see this old fishing boat with a cypre forming the mat, without knowing whether the tree has grown through the boat, or whether the latter has been demanted and rebuilt around the trunk - Costa Brava, Catalonia, Spain - photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4289208: Toulouse (31 - Haute-Garonne - Midi-Pyrenees) - Basilica Romanesque St Sernin (Saint Sernin, Saint-Sernin): the main nave rises more than 21 metres. It is vowed in a cradle and divided into eleven travees by double arches - religious architecture - Romanesque art - Photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4289232: Toulouse (31 - Haute-Garonne - Midi-Pyrenees) - Basilique St Sernin (Saint Sernin, Saint-Sernin): The gem stands of the collaterals. The nave is framed by two collaterals of decrowing height, but unlike the nave vaulted in barrel, the bas-cote are vaults dõaretes - religious architecture - Romanesque art - Photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4289293: Toulouse (31 - Haute-Garonne - Midi-Pyrenees) - Basilica Romanesque St Sernin (Saint Sernin) - Romanesque art late 11th, early 12th century in the ambulatory - Low relief of Christ blessing in majeste, in a mandorla, (in glory (majeste) surrounds the symbols of the four evangelists. The linear design of the clothing is inspired by Carolingian ivories. Marble relief of Christ in Majesty, end of 11th century, preserved in the Basilica of St Sernin, Toulouse. France, 11th-12th century - Photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4289333: Toulouse (31 - Haute-Garonne - Midi-Pyrenees) - Basilica Romanesque St Sernin (Saint Sernin): model representing the city of Toulouse, wooden copy (1752) of the original ex-voto in wax, offered by the Capitouls in gratitude for the protection of the city during the plague epidemic of 1528. Photo by Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4289416: A dish from the south of France: Cassoulet, a recipe for stew from the south west (Languedoc-Roussillon (Languedoc) and Midi-Pyrenees) - beans (white bean), Toulouse sausage, poultry confit and pork, cooked in a terrine (cassole) and gratine - meals - cuisine - Midi - photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4289447: A page of “” Ecce Homo””, numero antichretien (anti chretien) of “” L'Plate au beurre””, number 300, of December 29, 1906 by Jules Grandjouan (1875-1968) - The good pastor: “Let me the little children come”... it's never too late to fool men! “” - Jesus Christ - anticlericalism - Catholic religion - religion is the opium of the people -, Grandjouan, Jules (1875-1968) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4289479: Advertisement of 1936 for Air France (Air-France, world air network) created in 1933 - the photo represents a plane of the airline, with its logo of the time familiar called the seahorse, on the tarmac of the air port of Bron (Lyon). The term airport is not yet used here. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4289480: The seven. This term is derived from the Protestant tradition, or it refers to the seven-year period during which a pastor exercises his mandate. In France, in constitutional law, since its inception by the monarchist president Patrice de Mac Mahon during the Third Republic (Third Republic), he designated the term of office of the President of the Republic (Act of 19 or 20 November 1873). It ended in 2002 at the end of President Jacques Chirac's first term, after 129 years of application, except for the parentheses of the Vichy regime, to be replaced by the five-year term. The septennate I is here caricature by B. Moloch (1849-1909) in Touchatout's Trombinoscope as a fetus in a jar (late 19th century) - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4287203: Toulouse (31, Haute-Garonne) at the beginning of the 20th century (around 1900): the banks of the Garonne, the church of Notre-Dame de la Dalbade (bell tower) and the quay of Tounis - boats: peniches - view taken from the Prairie des Filters or graze a herd of montons (sheep and goats) - colorized postcard sent in 1917 - / Bridgeman Images