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XEE4190221: Description of the various products and uses of paper: at the centre are activities in a stationery, making paper from rags, pulp, shapes and press. Various uses, drawing paper, scientist Buffon writing his Natural History, reading public papers (newspapers), view of a library, paper in the form of banknotes, and the end of paper becoming rag. Plate “” Le papier et ses produits”” in “” les Recreations instructives”” Synoptique painting by Jules Delbruck, engraving from 1860. Private collection., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4190356: Description of children's leisure and play: King of France Henry IV (1553-1610) playing with his children (probably Louis XIII and Elisabeth of France) in front of the Spanish ambassador. Queen Mary of Medicis is present. Plate “” les jeux de l'enfance”” in “” les Recreations instructives”” Synoptique painting by Jules DELBRUCK, engraving from 1860. Private collection., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4190963: Journey of Emperor Napoleon III (1808-1873) and his wife Eugenie de Montijo (1826-1920) to Savoy: here the passage to the Rock between Annecy and Thonon, following the annexation of the Count of Savoy (March Turin Treaty). Engraving from “” Le monde illustrious”” 08/09/1860 Collection privee, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4286630: La legende de Sainte Odile (Odile de Hohenbourg, ca. 662- ca. 720) pulling out a spring from the rock - Illustration by Joseph Kuhn Regnier (Kuhn-Regnier) (1873-1940) for “Legendes et contes d'Alsace”, ed. Fernand Nathan debut 20th century - Mont Sainte Odile -, Kuhn-Regnier, Joseph (1873-1940) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4286722: Franco-German War of 1870 - 1871 - France, Prussians - Illustration of the book by Emile Lavisse “Tu seras soldat”, Armand Colin 1899 - History of a French soldier, stories and patriotic lecons of military training and education - German soldiers and officers invaded a French house. They plunder food supplies and drive the inhabitants to ripple before burning the house - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4287408: the watchmaking industry at the Chaux de Fonds (La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) at the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century: a watch manufacturing workshop, Jacques Meyer watchmaking factory in the centre of the city, next to a bank - eine uhrenatelier - extract from an engraving of 1895 - watch - precision - finance - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4287432: Le Dauphine at the beginning of the 20th century: high vallee de la Claree, chalets of Laval (1960 meters), terminus of the motorable road - at the bottom: the Aiguille Noire and the Col des Rochilles - automobile - Alps, alpine pastures, mountain life - period postcard - / Bridgeman Images