ELD4949736: Portrait of Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane. 19th century (chromolithograph) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4949951: French language: pound wildly, chromolithograph, early 20th century, Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4949996: French word: having gables on the street, the owners who used to have had the gables (pieces of wall) overlooking the street (to have a storefront) chromolithograph of the beginning of the 20th century, Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4949997: The Brest thunder, french locution. chromolithograph, early 20th century, Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4950071: Le passer du grand lac dans le bois de Boulogne sur seine, near Paris 1910 Postcard / Bridgeman Images

ELD4950303: View on Endome in Marseille and on the islands, Bouches du Rhone Postcard around 1930, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4950392: Cacaoyer tree (cocoa or cocoa tree used to make cocoa mass, cocoa powder, confectionery, ganache and chocolate). 19th century (chromolithograph) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4950432: View of the Arcades and Fish Shop of Dieppe, Seine Maritime, Normandy Postcard 1905 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4950580: View of the Monument Gambetta and the Grand Theatre, Place Gambetta in Bordeaux Gironde Postcard ca. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951006: 21/12/1873, naval officer Francis Garnier (1839-1873) died near Hanoi during a fight between his troops and Chinese irreguliers, the Black Pavillons””, Indochine”” (The french explorer Francis Garnier killed during an attack of the black flags, 21st December 1873, Indochina) Engraving from “The Martyrs of Science” by Gaston Weaver 1882 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951030: Journalist Joseph Eustache Croce Spinelli (1845-1875), naval officer Henri Theodore Sivel (1834-1875), and French author and scientist Gaston Tissandier (1843-1899) are seen in the basket of the balloon Zenith after losing consciousness due to lack of oxygen, 1875 - From a protective sleeve for school books, late 19th century - La catastrophe du Zenith - Descent of the Zenith Ballon”” with the bodies of Croce-Spinelli and Sivel, who died of asphixie during the ascent, and Gaston Tissandier evanoui”” Engraving from “The Martyrs of Science”” by Gaston Tissandier 1882 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951136: Suicide of Horace Wells, American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, specifically nitrous oxide (or laughing gas) slitting his left femoral artery with a razor after inhaling an analgesic dose of chloroform to blot out the pain) Engraving from “Les martyres de la science” by Gaston Tissandier 1882 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951187: Queen of France Anne of Austria (1601-1666) and King Louis XIII (1601-1643) visiting the painter Pierre Paul Rubens (1577-1640). End of the 19th century (chromolithograph) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951355: Vie quotidienne en Serbie au 19eme siecle, le service de la poste dans les campagnes (Daily life in Serbia in the 19th century, the postman in the countryside) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951383: Vue des gorges d'Ollioules, Var (The Ollioules canyon in the Var department, France) Postcard ca. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951413: View of the port of Sainte Maxime (Sainte-Maxime) Var (Sainte-Maxime port) Postcard years 1940, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951521: Portrait of Pope Pius II (enea silvio piccolomini) (1405-1464) (Portrait of Pope Pius II) Engraving from the school and science” 1887 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951573: Representation of Cristoforo Landino (1425-1498) Italian humanist teaching beautiful letters at the Neoplatonician academy (Accademia neoplatonica) (Neoplatonism mediceen) in Florence “” (Italian humanist Cristoforo Landino teaching at the Platonic Academy founded by Marsilio Ficino in Florence) After an engraving of the 15th century - in “” The and the science”” 1887 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951631: Origin of the french expression meaning dress up to show all its splendour.. Late 19th century (chromolithograph) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951674: Pointing breed of dog: the pointer, hunting dog. End of the 19th century (chromolithograph) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951681: View of the arsenal of Rochefort sur mer (Rocherfort-sur-Mer) 1903 Charente maritime France Postcard / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951687: Representation of the expression wait in front of a door with a door knocker . End of the 19th century (chromolithograph) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951718: View of the crevices of the sea of ice, Chamonix, mont-blanc Postcard around 1915 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951783: View of the city of Vierzon in the Cher (View over Vierzon, Centre Loire Valley, France) Postcard ca. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951809: Beautiful period: view of the Place de MarTroi and the rue de la republique in Orleans, Loiret postcard, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951834: Herboristerie, representation de la plante de ricin (View of Ricinus communis (castorbean or castor-oil-plant)), 19th century (chromolithograph) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951865: Utilisation de la moutarde, cuisine et revulsif - the mustard - / Bridgeman Images

ELD4951927: View of avenue d'algiers a Cherchell (Scherschel) in Algeria Postcard around 1915 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4952050: View of the Musee d'art de Toulon, VAR (Fine art museum in Toulon, VAR) Postcard 1910 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4952231: L'esplanade du treport, with tennis courts, seine maritime, Normandy Postcard 1910 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4952509: Portrait of Maximilian by Robespierre (1758-1794). 19th century (engraving from "Memoires de Sanson”) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4952834: Enguerrand de Marigny (1260-1315) condemned by a commission reunited in Vincennes, was hanged in the Montfaucon gibet that he had eriger. Fulgence Girard, 19th century, (engraving from "les mysteres of the great world). / Bridgeman Images

ELD4952887: Portrait of Agnes Sorel (1422-1450) favorite by King Charles VII of France (Portrait of Agnes Sorel known by the sobriquet Dame de beaute, favourite, and chief mistress, of King Charles VII of France). 19th century (engraving from “Les mysteres du grand monde” by Fulgence Girard) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4953051: FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1794 - The closing of the Hall of Jacobins at Paris, France on 27-28 July 1794. 19th century (engraving from “Les mysteres du grand monde” by Fulgence Girard) / Bridgeman Images

ELD4953215: The Apparition of Virgin Mary in Lourdes - La Virgo apparait a Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879) in Lourdes in 1858 - Engraving from “The Miracles” 1880 / Bridgeman Images

ELD4953395: Coupeau motivating Lantier to enter the laundry in the evening where Gervaise celebrates his reussite Illustration of “” The darker”” by Emile Zola 1884 / Bridgeman Images