ELD4958403: Louis Francois Sosthenes I, Viscount of La Rochefoucauld (1785-1864) with Zoe Talon, Countess of Cayla (1785-1852). 19th century (engraving from "Histoire des tuileries" by Beaujoint) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4958416: Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feucheres English, best known as the mistress of Louis Henry II, Prince of Conde, meeting he duke of Orleans after she was banished of the court, April 1827. 19th century (engraving from “Histoire des tuileries” by Beaujoint) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4958462: King Louis XIV (1638-1715) joining by the roofs at night the apartments of Louise de La Valliere (1644-1710) around 1664 - 1665 (King Louis XIV on the roof of Louise de la Valliere house, 1664) Engraving from “Histoire des tuileries”” by Beaujoint 19th century / Bridgeman Images

ELD4958681: Norse mythology: the Fingal's Cave on the Staffa island Engraving from “Nordisch-Germanische Gotter und Helden” by Wilhelm wagner 1901 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4958843: Nordic mythology: representation of the god Thor with Loki (Norse mythology: Loki and Thor) Engraving from “Nordic-Germanische Gotter und Helden” by Wilhelm wagner 1901 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4959092: Nordic mythology: Hamjar and Oddr's friendship in the story Orvar-Odds saga (Norse mythology: Hamjar and Oddr brotherhood) Engraving from “Nordisch-Germanische Gotter und Helden” by Wilhelm wagner 1901 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4959265: Bucephale the horse of Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) receiving offerings (Bucephalus or Bucephalas the horse of Alexander the Great) Engraving from Fournier 1884 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4959310: Miscellaneous made by the lion of Florence, escape from the menagerie of the Grand Duche of Florence who had released, without harming him, a child he had taken in his fangs under the eyes of his mother at the end of the 18th century (The lion of Florence) Engraving from Fournier 1884 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4959525: Portrait of Francoise de Mailly, Marquise de La Vrilliere (Francoise de Mailly-Nesle) (1688-1742) and the English diplomat Luke Schaub (1690-1758) 1721-1724 Engraving from “Les rues-de-paris” by Pierre Zaccone, 1859 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4959577: View of the cabaret “” le tambour royal””” of the cabaretier Ramponneau, located at the corner of the streets of l'Oreillon and Saint-Maur (Ramponeau or Ramponaux) 18th century Paris (Scene inside the Tambour Royal, a popular tavern and cabaret run by Jean Ramponaux, Paris) Engraving from “Les rues-de-paris” by Pierre Zaccone, 1859 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4959632: King Henry IV (1553-1610) and Marie de Beauvilliers (1574-1656) abbess of Montmartre his mistress (king of France Henri IV and his mistress the french abbess of Montmartre Marie de Beauvilliers) Engraving from Les rues-de-paris” by Pierre Zaccone, 1859 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4959666: View of one of the many Parisian piloris in the Middle Ages (Pillory in Paris in the middle ages) Engraving from “Paris-a-Trans-les-Siecles” by H Gourdon of knee 19th century / Bridgeman Images

ELD4959702: The philosopher and software Adam du petit pont (Adam Balsham, Adam du Peer-Pont, Adamus de Parvo Ponte, Adamus Balsamiensis) (1100-1169) teaching his students including Jean De Salisbury (1115-1180) (Adam of Balsham Anglo-Norman scholastic and churchman teaching to his pupils, among them John of Salisbury and William of Tyre) about “” Les streets-de-paris”” by Pierre Zaccone, 1859 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4959739: Autodafe (auto da fe) (auto da fe) in the 16th century Spain (Spanish inquisition: autodafe, ritual of public penance of condemned heretics and apostates that took place when the Spanish Inquisition 16th century) Engraving from “Les Prisons-de-l'Europe” by Alboize et Maquet, 1845 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4959817: Napoleon I in exile on the island of St. Helene saying I legue the reproach of my death the Royal House of England” to Dr. Arnold surgeon of an English regiment April 19, 1820. Late 19th century (chromolithograph) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4959909: The poet Pierre Honore Robbe de Beauveset (1714-1794) visiting the house of Rabelais in Chinon in 1760 and writing a poem on the wall of his cabinet (French poet Pierre Honore Robbe de Beauveset in rabelais house, Chinon) Engraving from “” La mosaique” 1873 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4959961: Representation of Polichinelle, character of the Commedia dell'Arte (Pulcinella) Engraving from “” The Mosaic”” 1873 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4960005: Origin of the French expression s'entendre comme larrons en foire, qui référence à la complicite des petits thieves qui sevissait lors les marches au 16eme century (to be as thick as thieves, french expression, it refers to the complicity of thieves) Chromolithographie du debut du 20eme century le, Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4960055: Pythagoras (580-495 BC) of Samos Ionian Greek religious reformer, presocratic philosopher received the eponymous founder of the Pythagoreanism by Egyptian priests around 547 BC. 19th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4936803: View of the staircase of the opera de Paris, 1910 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4937045: Porte Saint-Denis in Paris, 1905 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4938021: Portrait of a raia (Christian or Jew subject to the Capitation Tax) in Herzegovine under the Muslim Empire (a raia non-muslim subject under muslim empire) Engraving from 'Le magasin picturesque”” 1862 Private collection / Bridgeman Images

ELD4938121: View of the central halles of Paris (cross section) Engraving from “The picturesque store” 1862 Private collection / Bridgeman Images

ELD4938134: View of a cement quarry in Grenoble Isere (a cement quarry near Grenoble, Isere) Engraving from “” Le magasin picturesque” 1862 Private collection / Bridgeman Images

ELD4938360: View of the cathedrale Notre Dame de Grenoble, Isere, 1910 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4938415: View of the National School of Arts and Metiers, Paris, 1914 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4938628: View of the Flower Market in Paris, Ile de la Cite Paris 1905 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4938707: View of the Great Rosette of the Holy Chapel in Paris, 1910 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4938887: View of the Rue des Saules in the old Montmartre, Paris, 1905 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4939157: View of Place de Rennes, Paris, c.1905 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4939336: View on the beach of Grande conche, Royan, France, c.1910 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4939982: Tunnel of a route of the Gorges de la Bourne in the Vercors, France, 1908 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4940543: View of Parc Montsouris in paris 1906 Postcard / Bridgeman Images

ELD4940840: View of Place de la Comedie in Metz, Moselle Postcard 1912 approx. / Bridgeman Images

ELD4914198: Representation of Saint Catherine de Genes (caterina fieschi adorno) (1447-1510) (Catherine of Genoa). 19th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4914322: Representation of Audomar or Saint Omer (600-670), eveque of Therouanne. 19th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images