XEE4142462: Louis XIV King of France liked to hear Jean Racine read and brought him in when he was sick. Engraving by A. Duruy in “” Illustrations litteraires de la France; or, Galerie anecdotique de nos principaux auteurs ints par leurs actions et leurs inscriptions”” by J.B. Maigrot. 1865. Private collection., Duruy, A. (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4159586: Club des Jacobins - Paris rue Neuve-St Honore 1789 - View of the club of Jacobins. Former convent of the Order of St Dominica - A session at the club of Jacobins, during the Revolution of 1789 - Engraving of 1844 - French Revolution. A session at the Jacobin Club in the library of the Dominican Convent in Paris (France)., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4404379: Installation of the trasatlantic electric cable intended to connect Europe to America in 1865. Buoy system used to keep the electrical cable from breaking during installation. The vessel in charge of the operation was the Great Eastern. Engraving from 1865., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4157708: Peace of Tolentino between Napoleon I and Pope Pius VI, February 18, 1797 - The Tolentino Treaty or Tolentino Peace is a peace treaty signed on February 19, 1797 in Tolentino, Italy, between France and the Pontifical States. (Between General Bonaparte and Pope Pius (Pio or Pius) VI (1717-1799) - The Pope renounces himself to Avignon and Comtat Venaissin. engraving by Antonio Poggioli, Poggioli, Antonio (active c.1799-1801) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4157928: Les Fetes de l'Amour et de Bacchus by Jean Baptiste Lully (Giovanni Battista Lulli) (1632-1687) a Versailles 1668 - The feasts of Love and Bacchus by Jean-Baptiste Lully performed in 1668 in the Little Park of Versailles, during the festival commissioned by Louis XIV, print from 1678 Jean Le Pautre (1618 -1682), Lepautre, Jean (1618-82) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4155872: Portrait of Matilda of Tuscany also known as Matilda of Canoss (Matilde or Mathilda) (1046 - 1115) Italian noblewoman - engraving from “” Usi e Costumi di Tutti i i Popoli dell'Universo. Ovvero Storia del governo, delle leggi, della milizia, della religione di tutte le nazioni dai piu remoti tempi fino ai giorni nostri” 1856, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4156497: Stamp Act (Duties in American Colonies Act) - American Revolutionary leader Patrick Henry (1736-1799) speaking out against the Stamp Act in the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1765 - Speech by Patrick Henry against the Stamp Act in 1765 before the House of Bourgeois in Virginia, Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4155380: Delian Dance in the feast of Diana or Artemis (goddess of the hunt) - engraving from “” Usi e Costumi di Tutti i i Popoli dell'Universo. Ovvero Storia del governo, delle leggi, della milizia, della religione di tutte le nazioni dai piu remoti tempi fino ai giorni nostri” 1856, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4155575: Les Merovingiens - Merovingian dynasty - Pharamond or Faramund (- Chlodio (Clodius, Clodion, Cloio or Chlogio) (Clodion le Chevelu) (ca. 390 - ca. 450) - Merovech (Merovee or Merowig, ca. 412-457) and Clovis (ca. 466-511” - engraving from “Usi e Costumi di Tutti i Popoli dell'Universo. Ovvero Storia del governo, delle leggi, della milizia, della religione di tutte le nazioni dai piu remoti tempi fino ai giorni nostri” 1856, Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4153955: Louis XVIII and the establishment of the Constitutional Monarchy - Constitutional Charter of 4 June 1814 - Louis XVIII presides over the opening of the session of the Chambers on 4 June 1814 at the Palais Bourbon in Paris - in “Histoire de l'empire suite à l'histoire du consulate”” by Adolphe Thiers -1879 - private collection, French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4188257: Settling of accounts between Uncle Sam, the symbol of the United States, and Marianne, representing France over the money lent on the one hand during the First World War and the United States War of Independence (and the Lafayette expedition). Cover from “” Le petit journal”” of 09/05/1920 Collection privee - Settlement of accounts between Uncle Sam, symbol of the United States, and Marianne, Emblem of France, following the American War of Independence and World War I, Frontpage of French newspaper Le petit journal, May 9, 1920, Private Collection, Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4182657: Card to play of the French Republic (1793) published in the National Convention on 21/09/1792, after the fall of the Kingdoms: the character of the philosopher under the traits of Jean-Jacques (Jean Jacques) Rousseau “” to the social contract”” (1712-1778). In “” The picturesque store”” 1835, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4147379: Charles III the Fat (839-88) pays off the Viking invaders in 886 - Charles III 3 le Gros (839-888) Emperor of West (881-887) and Regent of France (884-887) camped under the walls of Paris without daring to fight the Normans, preferring to buy their retirement at silver price - Engraving 1825 in “Histoire de France represented by synoee ptics dediee to the children of France and employee for their education”” - Steel engraving by Ambroise Tardieu, Tardieu, Ambroise (1788-1841) / Bridgeman Images