TAD1755862: French director Jean-Claude Carriere, c.1982 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1755871: Photo taken by Helene Callias in september 1931 : on l : Cabanel and next to her Liane de Pougy (1870-1950, famous French courtesan) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1755877: Jean Hugo (1894-1984) and Christian Berard (1902-1949) c. 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1755887: Jean Pierre Chabrol (1925-2001) French writer / Bridgeman Images

TAD1755888: French prisoners of war liberated by american 1st army on their way home : 2 groups on road near Padenborn, 1945, photo by Lawrence Riordan, NARA / Bridgeman Images

TAD1755899: The independence day in Paris, the flags are handed over to general Pershing in Invalides court in Paris, by delegation of descendants of the french officers who participated in the American War of Independence. Here on the left are French soldiers, on the right the american soldiers and on the balcony the authorities / Bridgeman Images

TAD1755925: Women demanding right to vote for French women, 1936 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1755960: General Charles de Gaulle in La Rochelle (France) july 1945 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756043: Saint Malo harbour (Brittany, France) before the bombing of 1944 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756151: Arlette Stavisky, wife of AlexandreStavisky, with their daughters Micheline (c) and Claude at flowers fair in Cannes in 1933 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756152: Arlette Stavisky, wife of the French swindler Alexandre Stavisky, here during elegance competition in Cannes in 1933 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756153: arrest of Mr Pigaglio, editor of paper "La Volonte" in january 1934 : he was a friend of AlexandreStavisky and was with him when he left Paris to Cervoz / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756159: investigating officers in Chamonix (France) in january 1934 where they are investigating after death of AlexandreStavisky / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756163: The Louvre palace in Paris : the peristyle with View of the square courtyard, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756164: Pierre Laval and Aristide Briand in Versailles, may 1931. / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756196: In Saintes Maries de la Mer (south of France) : outside of his caravan, a gipsy making wicker basket, 50's / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756200: Eugenio Pacelli (future pope Pie XII in 1939-1958) signing golden book in Paris under Arch of triumph in july 1937 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756219: Lyons (France) : l-r : old buildings of Flecheres hotel, law courts and Roanne jail, engraving by Seon after a sketch by Gay / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756261: Douarnenez (Brittanny, France) : departure for fishing / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756305: James Ramsay Mac Donald (1866-1947), leader of Labour party, english prime minister in 1924 then from 1929 to 1931, he came back to power between 1931 and 1935 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756317: French painter Albert Gleize (1881-1953) in his workshop in Mejades / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756419: Spanish civil war : francoist soldiers shooting republicans from interior of a house in ruins october 1936 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756422: Poster for RNP, a French left national party, 1943 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756428: Spanish civil war : surveillance of Spanish coasts by english navy march 29, 1937 to make respected the embargo on weapons / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756436: General Wladyslaw Eugeniusz Sikorski (1881-1943) polish oficer and politician here arriving in London on november 17, 1934 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756437: General Wladyslaw Eugeniusz Sikorski (1881-1943) polish oficer and politician / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756439: General Wladyslaw Eugeniusz Sikorski (1881-1943) polish oficer and politician / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756502: Countess Mona Bismarck (1897-1983) founder of the Mona Bismarck Foundation (for friendship between France and Germany), drawing / Bridgeman Images

TAD1757332: Spahis in north Africa / Bridgeman Images

TAD1757379: French president Paul Doumer (c) leaving law courts in Paris 1931 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1757383: Visit of French president Albert Lebrun in a weapon factory in 1939 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1757388: Paul Deschanel (1860-1934) French president in 1920, official portrait, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1757397: During military reView in september 1931 : foreign officers / Bridgeman Images

TAD1757427: Native house of French president Raymond Poincare (1860-1934) in Bar le Duc (Meuse, Lorraine) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1757445: depreciation of the Franc july 1926 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1757512: On november 17, 1941 : young people taking oath at portrait of marshal Petain / Bridgeman Images