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PCT4267820: Illustration of Pinocchio by Carlo Chiostri (1863-1939), one of the first Italian illustrators of Collodi's work. The wooden puppet will be swallowed by a terrible shark, despite the help of the blue fee that has taken the look of a goat perched on a rock in the middle of the sea., Chiostri, Carlo (1863-1939) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4267878: 19th century map of the department of Herault (34, Languedoc Roussillon), extracted from the Atlas Migeon de Vuillemin. This map is accompanied by illustrations showing the weapons of Montpellier and a view of the port of Celle (today Sete, dominates by Mont Saint Clair, on the banks of the Lion Gulf). There are also portraits of the two great men of the department: Pierre Paul Riquet, Baron de Bonrepos (1604 or 1609-1680), engineer who created and realised the Canal du Midi in the south of France between the Garonne and the Mediterranean Sea, and Guillaume Louis Figuier (1819 -1894), writer and scientific popularizer. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4269630: Series of 3 postcards beginning 20th century: school busissoniere. Three young boys climb the wall of a garden whose portal bears a sign “wolf traps””. They denichen birds and steal fruit from an orchard tree, then rip off vegetables from the vegetable garden. One of the pilferers is then caught in a trap., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4269791: Chromo is inspired by the book “Memorials of a donkey” by the Countess of Segur (Rose Library). Offered to customers by Au Bon Marche stores, beginning 20th century. Cadichon donkey saves a child who had fallen into the water of a river., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4270675: Postcard beginning 20th century: peasant song of Berry (in Berrichon patois) by Jean Rameau. The baptism of Little John: “I take a hen and a rabbit - for the baptism of our little John - with a few cakes and a few chopines - it won't cost us too much money., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4181480: Treaty of Conflans on 5/10/1465 between the King of France Louis XI and Charles de Charolais (later Charles the Temeraire) ending the revolt of nobles or League of Public Good. Engraving in “” Histoire De France En Cent Paintings by Paul Lehugeur “” 1891., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4182418: Theatre de l'Ambigu comique in Paris: theatre piece “” le crime de faverne””, drama in five acts and seven paintings by Theodore Barriere (1823-1877) and Leon Beauvallet (1828-1885). Act III, second table. Engraving in “” The Illustrious Universe””, 1868. Private collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images