TAD1758917: Ceremony at monastic center for russian orthodox religion near Mesnil Saint Denis (France) c. 1988 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758935: In Toronto, Canada, building of planes, 1915 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758939: collapse of a Morane Saulnier plane, on l is pilot Jean Navarre (1895-1919), ww1 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758941: Aerial View of Fort de Douaumont (Verdun, France) in the state in which Germans had left it in 1916 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758942: Session at parliament in Toulouse, engraving from book Opus de Tholosanorum by Nicolas Bernard, 1515 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758946: French soldiers jumping from gondola of a balloon, ww1, drawing / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758951: Joseph Staline dictating orders to chief of general staff Boris Shaposhnikov february 1940 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758956: American aviator Charles Lindbergh with French minister of war Paul Painleve , in Paris on may 1927 after his transatlantic flight / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758959: Charles II de Crequy (1578-1630) duke of Lesdiguieres, French marshal, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758962: Etienne Cabet (1788-1856) French politician theorician, engraving, 1845 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758976: Torch Operation : landing of Allies in North Africa, november 8, 1942, photo NARA / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758977: Etienne Cabet (1788-1856) French politician theorician, engraving, 1833 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758982: Valentin Conrart (1603-1675) French calvinist he was councellor and secretary of French king LouisXIII and prime secretary of French Academy, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758987: Jacques du Fouilloux (1519-1580) French hentleman, author of a book about venery, drawing / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758988: Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) French writer with is son Jean c. 1897 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758993: Valmy (Marne, France) where took place on september 20, 1972 the battle : here the mill / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759019: Biarritz (France) : the golf and the hotel, postcard, 50's / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759038: George 1er (1660-1727) king of England in 1714-1727, engraving, 1717 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1759040: Donjon of Gisors castle (France) built in 1096, engraving (19thcentury) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758463: Materialization of a Young Woman Produced by the Medium Linda Gazzera, 1909, special effect by Enrico Imoda / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758468: Ghost of a monk in Souvigny priory (France) which it is said to be haunted / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758473: Prosper Merimee (1803-1870) French writer in 1825, drawing by Etienne Delecluze / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758494: Russian writer and poet Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov (1814-1841) on his deathbed, drawing / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758497: Mariya Arsenyeva, mother of russian poet Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov (1814-1841) miniature / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758503: Prince Michael Gortschakoff (1792-1961) russian general, photo by Disderi / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758513: Alexandre Baranov (1747-1819) russian merchant, 1st governor of Russian America in 1792-1818 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758517: Nicolas Martynov (1815-1875) russian officer who killed Mikhail Lermontov in a duel, dessin / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758520: Perfect royalist on march 31, 1814 : while French king Louis XVIIII (king in 1814-1824) struts about, a man steal in his pockets, another one (soldier) seduce his lady, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758524: Frontispiece of work by Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov (1814-1841) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758526: Sophie Karamzine, daughter of Nicolas Karamzine, drawing / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758527: Arthur Pavlovitch Baron of Mohrenheim (1824-1906) russian ambassador in paris / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758529: David d'Alopeus (1769-1831) russian diplomat, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758539: Eusapia Palladino (1854-1918) famous italian medium c. 1898 colourized document / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758540: A cabocle in Brazil, bending a bow back, laid on the ground, engraving by Jean-Baptiste Debret, 1834 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758551: Charruas indians, Brazil, 19th century, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758573: surrender of French general Rene Reille (1835 - 1898) at Sedan battle on september 1st, 1870, engraving / Bridgeman Images