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PCT4291211: Cover of the sports magazine Mirror-Sprint (Mirror Sprint) No. 10 of July 30, 1946 - The cyclist Jean-Apotre (Jean Apotre), known as Apo Lazarides (1925 - 1998), champion of the Ronde de France (rival cycling race of the Tour de France) has just won the Monaco - Paris race, in front of his friend Rene Vietto - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291280: Extract from the magazine “” Mirror Sprint “” No. 3 of June 13, 1946, announcing the Ronde de France test, rival cycling race of the Tour de France, which will take place from 10 to 14 July, in five stages from Bordeaux to Grenoble, at the initiative of the newspaper “Ce Soir” - sport, post-war, cycling, pass, mountain road- / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291504: Paris, tourist city in the middle of the twentieth century (20th century): the Place du Chatelet and the Tour Saint Jacques (St Jacques Tower, Saint Jacques) - car traffic, bus, urban transport - Fountain du Palmier, theatre - Guy postcard (true photography) sent in July 1948 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291549: Brazzaville (Francaise Equatorial Africa - A.E.F.): view of the Catholic mission from the gallery of the Episcopal Palace - two of six avenues leading to the Mission - amenagements made by the missionaries - postcard beginning 20th century - France, Africa, France-Africa, Francafrica, French-African relations, French Congo, colony, colonization, civilization, order, religion - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291585: Nimes, France, Languedoc Roussillon (Languedoc-Roussillon), Gard (30): tourists in front of the Tower Magne, Gallo-Roman monument - it is a pre-Roman building originally 18 metres tall, transformed during the period of Roman domination, under the reign of Emperor Augustus. Its height was then doubled, rising to 36 metres and affirming the power of Roman power - tourism at the beginning of the 20th century, Roman antiquite - postcard around 1900 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291594: Pantomime aux Folies-Bergere, brocking the Berlier tube, first underground tram project (metro - metropolitan) by French engineer Jean-Baptiste Berlier (1841 - 1911) - the female character embodying the Seine encourages the one embodying the Tube: “Go ahead Ernest” (alluding to the fact that “” the train must pass under the river “”) - postcard by period, late 19th or early 20th century - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291628: Construction of the Paris metropolitan (metro) near the Alexandre III Bridge, North-South Line: installation of the Berlier tube under the Seine, thwarted by the flood of the river in 1910. Construction of the metropolitan of Paris. North-South line: Berlier tube under the Seine, 1910. Jean-Baptiste Berlier, born in 1841 or 1843 and died in 1911, was a French engineer and inventor, to whom the first project of an electric underground railway in Paris in 1887, then melted into the global realisation of the metropolitan area from 1900. Postcard 1910 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291637: Construction in 1926 of the bridge with a transverse arch over the Bevera (French-Italian river), on the railway line linking Nice (France) to Coni (Italy) known as the bridge du Cai or the viaduct of Sospel (Alps, Alpes-Maritimes). A technical masterpiece of the French engineer Paul Sejourne (1851-1939), this bold railway bridge was destroyed twice during World War II and rebuilt in 1962 according to the original design - postcard of a view before laying the bridge - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291645: Nimes, France, Languedoc Roussillon (Languedoc-Roussillon), Gard (30): tram passing under the three Roman pillars at the beginning of the 20th century, route de Sauve - in fact these remains do not date from the Roman period but from the Middle Ages. They were demolished in 1959 to allow the enlargement of the road - ruin, historical monument, antiquite - postcard of epoque - reclame Picon, publicite on public transport - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291664: The mascaret, (locally called “” bar “”, wave up the Seine from the mouth of the river) photograph in Caudebec-en-Caux (Caudebec en Caux) commune of Seine-Maritime (Seine Maritime, Normandy) became in 2016 by merging with two neighbouring localites the new municipality of Rives-en-Seine (Rives en Seine) - postcard beginning 20th century sent in 1911 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291668: The mascaret, (locally called “” bar “”, wave up the Seine from the mouth of the river) photograph in Caudebec-en-Caux (Caudebec en Caux) commune of Seine-Maritime (Seine Maritime, Normandy) became in 2016 by merging with two neighbouring localites the new municipality of Rives-en-Seine (Rives en Seine) - postcard beginning 20th century - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291680: Nice-Havrais (Nice havrais) a Sainte-Adresse (Sainte Adresse), Seine Maritime (Seine-Maritime, Normandy): subdivision and seaside resort created in 1905 by Georges Dufayel, Parisian businessman, design of the Havre architect Ernest Daniel - general and summer view, colourful postcard of the period, early 20th century - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291717: The French alchemist Nicolas Flamel (c 1330-1418) and his wife Perrenelle (Pernelle or Perronelle, 1320-1397) as they appear in the book “Le livre des figures hieroglifiques (hieroglyphiques), Trois traitez de la philosophie naturelle not yet print “”, published in 1612 in Paris by Pierre Arnauld Sieur de la Chevallerie, Poitevin - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4292057: Presidential campaign of 1980 in France: list of the first 150 signatures of the committee supporting the candidacy of Coluche (Michel Colucci, comedian and comedian, 1944-1986) for the presidency of the French Republic, presidential elections of 1981 (which finally saw Francois Mitterrand arrive at the head of the French State, after the withdrawal of the comic of politics. Taking full advantage of the provocation register, Reiser's drawing notes that “Hitler also started with 150 signatures”. Similarly, the qualities of the signatories are sometimes outrageous or fanciful, as lazy (or lazy), crook (for his producer Paul Lederman), alcoholic, pede, fool, pieton, Jewish or even... Toulousaine - last cover of Charlie Hebdo (Charlie-Hebdo) No. 521 of 5 November 1980 - see also GUT6470, GUT7252 and 7258 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4287714: Extract from the sketchbook “Prisoners of War”” published in 1918 by Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1933) - Wittenberg camp in Germany, where French civilian and military prisoners were kept from 1914 - on Sunday, curious German civilians come to see French prisoners like animals in cages behind the beard sons - child in uniform with a tip helmet - First World War 1914-1918 (14-18) 1915 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4287723: Engraving by Honore Daumier in the Charivari, mid-19th century: the new Parisian charcuterie - a butcher - sausage offers a client a horse's foot (still equipped with his iron) - “” new feet at the Ste Menehould invent by the hippophages (horse eaters)” - horse meat - hippophagy - food scandal - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4287972: Saint Pair (Paterne or Patern), originally from Armorique, is the first eveque attests to Vannes and one of the seven holy founders of Brittany (died between 490 and 511) - Jealous by the city authorities, he had to leave the region to take refuge in a monastery. Legend says that after his death many miracles would have taken place on his grave. Caught of remorse, the Vannetais brought home the remains of their eveque and built the church of Saint Patern on its tomb - Engraving by Adolphe Gusman, mid-19th century: St Pair warmed a sick child - St Patern feast on April 15 or May 21 (Roman calendar) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4288220: Carrieres-sur-Seine (Carrieres sur Seine, Val-d'Oise 95 - Val d'Oise, formerly Carrieres-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Oise - Seine and Oise - Ile-de-France) banks of the Seine and laundry boat (boat wash): colorized postcard early 20th century sent in 1905 - in the foreground, young people flirt on the grass at the edge River - Flirt - Boats - laundry - / Bridgeman Images