TAD1748163: View of Pornic in the Vendee c. 1860, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748177: depopulation of the country in France, engraving by Moreau the young in 1773 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750617: View of Saint Die (Vosges, Lorraine, France) c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748394: map the New-France (Virginia estate) in America, dedicated to Colbert (French king's adviser), engraving by Franquelin, 1688 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748430: Letter from French soldier Paul Breton to Anatole France, in 1917 (sentenced to death he was finally pardonned) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750806: Francois de Paris (1690-1727) fanatic Jansenist deacon, here making miracles, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748455: Jacques Cathelineau (1759-1793), one of the leaders at the time of the wars of the Vendee, France / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750844: French marshal Laurent marquis of Gouvion Saint Cyr (1764-1830), engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748310: the gorges of Franchard in the Forest of Fontainebleau in France, muche visited by George Sand and Alfred de Musset c. 1833-1835 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1745852: Cast iron mortar cannon gun dating 16th-17th century, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748467: cobbler "who in the past, worked for the aristocracy", engraving by L.Malteste in 1891 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748473: medal at the effigy of Victor Pisano called Pisanello (1395-1455) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748543: Propaganda poster from the Free France part (poster), French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748563: The harbour of Canton, China in 1730 , engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1746143: entrance of shelter in german trench on on the front in Champagne area in 1915 France / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748606: breviary of Rene d'Anjou , 15th century manuscript / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748631: Boris Godounov (1551-1605) czar of Russia in 1598-1605, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1746239: Bombings of oil refinery in Otake, Japan by americain airforce, mission on may 10, 1945 picture dating february 1946 by Lt Daniel McGovern for USSBS (United States Strategic Bombing Survey) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1746263: Small Allied flags merchant or streetvendor at the time of signature of Versailles Peace Treaty june 28, 1919 France / Bridgeman Images

TAD1746345: Allegory : after being proclaimed emperor on may 18, 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte, on a chariot, is cheered by French people, the imperial crown is given to him, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748743: the Vachette cafe in Paris in the late 19th century, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748768: harvest of the rubber by tapping the rubber trees, engraving 16th 17th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747939: german barbaric acts, engraving published in French newspaper La Baionnette may 31, 1917 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747950: german soldiers plundering castles, engraving published september 1914 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747976: back from the Bastille day military parade with General Boulanger, c.1886-89 (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748000: View of Bagomoyo in Sudan / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748046: Ham fair in Paris in 1916 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748083: cartoon of writer Jules Simon (1814-1896), author of "l'ouvriere" (the worker), Le Petit, Alfred (1841-1909) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748096: dressing up, engraving by Moreau the Young 18th century in France / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748204: will of Marie-Antoinette of Austria (1755-1793), queen of France in 1774-1789 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748833: Allied forces (american and english soldiers) near French coast, east off Toulon led by general Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, during the operations of the Allied Provence Landings (known as Operation Dragoon) august 15, 1944, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748853: illustration for the novel "Le Petit Chose" by Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897), with the character nicknamed Le Petit Chose (the Little Thing). first novel of Alphonse Daudet written in 1868 , engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748865: The entrance of the harbour of Marseille, France lithography by Frey in 1835 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748876: young mother breast-feeding her baby , late 19th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748954: View of the harbour of Marseille, France in the 19th century, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748969: David and his musicians, psalter of French king Charles the Bald, made between 842 and 869 / Bridgeman Images