ID: XEE4408542

Cover of “” the Little Inventor”” 1924-1925: To make yourself a bow, representation of an archery contest in the Middle Ages.

Unknown Artist, (20th century)

ID: XEE4408617

The Life of Mohammed, Muhammad or Muhammad, Prophete of Islam (570-632). The Archangel Gabriel leads the Prophet Muhammad to the vision of Allah. Chromolithography of the 19th century.

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: XEE4408120

Redul les heures de travail Poster by Paul Poncet (1878-1962) published by the CGT for May 1, 1911. Private collection.

Poncet, Paul (1878-1962)

ID: CH3714486

The Baths of Caracalla (oil on canvas)

Mattoni de la Fuente, Virgilio (1842-1923)

ID: CH3504340

Le Souk des Teinturiers, 1924 (oil on canvas)

Majorelle, Jacques (1886-1962)

ID: XEE4155532

The Lombards depart for the first Crusade at the end of the 11th century -

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: XEE4155572

King Henry VI of England and his Queen Consort Margaret of Anjou - Henry VI of England (1421 - 1471) and Margarita of Anjou (1429 - 1482) - 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

Anonymous

ID: 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

ID: 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)

ID: 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

ID: XEE4166328

Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher, in his garden.

Unknown photographer, (20th century)

ID: XEE4166916

Writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885) speaking on the occasion of the centenary of the death of Voltaire, famous at the Theatre de la Gaite in Paris on 30 May 1878. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°1106 of 8 June 1878.

French School, (19th century)

ID: 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)

ID: XEE4170701

Portrait of Jean Baptiste Poquelin dit Moliere (1622-1673) Chromolithography circa 1890.

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: XEE4168485

Portrait of Abbe Jean Marie Vianney (Vianey, Viannay, Viennet), known as the Cure d'Ars (1786-1859). It was made Saint Jean-Marie Vianney in 1925. Engraving by Cabuchet, 1860.

French School, (19th century)

ID: XEE4168065

Portrait of Madame Desbordes Valmore (Marceline Felicite Josephine Desbordes-Valmore, 1786-1859), French poetess. Engraving by G. Fath, 1860.

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: XEE4168121

First World War (1914-1918): German grenadier with gas mask in 1916.

Unknown photographer, (20th century)

ID: XEE4168265

portrait of the writer Oscar Wilde around 1900. 19th century photograph

Unknown photographer, (19th century)

ID: XEE4168846

The Seeker. (for the discovery of water sources) Illustration in “” Le petit Journal “” of 1913

Unknown Artist

ID: XEE4169024

Victor Hugo and his grandchildren (grandchildren) in Guernsey in 1872.

Unknown photographer, (20th century)

ID: XEE4167489

Portrait of Gerard de Nerval French writer (1808-1855).

Nadar, (Gaspard Felix Tournachon) (1820-1910)

ID: 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)

ID: XEE4151836

Liberation of Abd-el-Kader by Napoleon III from the chateau of Amboise, 1852- Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, gives freedom to Abd El Kader, Arab emir, at Amboise Castle, October 16, 1852 - engraving of 1852

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: XEE4150686

Portrait of Theroigne de Mericourt (1762-1817), French revolutionary - Engraving in “Histoire des Girondins”” by Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) 1865-1866 - Private collection

Anonymous

ID: XEE4150869

Portrait of Catherine Monvoisin (La Voisin) (1640-1680) (engraving) - Affaire des poisons: Catherine Deshayes, wife Monvoisin and nicknamed La Voisin (1640-1680) - Engraving of 1863 in “Le Livre Rouge - Histoire De L'echafaud en France” by Dupray de La Maherie - Private collection

Anonymous

ID: XEE4186537

First World War 1914-1918 (14-18): Roland Garros (1888-1918) French airman gunshot and fire a German aeroplane. Engraving in “” Le Petite Journal””, on 2/05/1915. Private collection.

Anonymous

ID: XEE4162381

Expedition to America (1799-1804) by Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and Aime Bonpland (1773-1858): Omaguas Indians (Amazonia, Peru) - illustration from “The Great Mariners of the 18th century”, 1879 - 1 of the 3 volumes of the “Histoire generale des grands voyages et des grands voyageurs” by Jules Verne

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: XEE4184057

Gaston Doumergue (1863-1937), President of the French Republic, shakes the hand of a knight from the Middle Ages at a medieval feast in the City of Carcassonne. Engraving. One of “Le petit journal illustrious”, 1928. Private collection.

Anonymous

ID: XEE4179930

The Raven and the Fox. Fables by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95). Illustration of the end of the 19th century.

French School, (19th century)

ID: XEE4182271

Georg Friedrich Rudolph Theodor Herwegh (1817-1875) German poet, revolutionary and translator.

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: 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)

ID: XEE4163742

Arthur Rimbaud, French poet and adventurer - Portrait of Arthur Rimbaud (1859 - 1891) is 17 years old. Photograph by Carjat.

Carjat, Etienne (1828-1906) (after)

ID: XEE4174689

Diplodocus fossil at the Natural History Museum of Paris. Engraving from the newspaper " Le Petit Parisien”, 10/05/1908 (engraving)

French School, (20th century)

ID: XEE4176897

Siege of Lille in 1792: Maes wig using a bomb shatter as a beard dish to shave a client. Engraving in “” Le petit parisien”” on 16/10/1892. Private Collection

Anonymous

ID: XEE4159360

Portraits of the main witnesses in the Dreyfus Zola affair in ” Le Petit Journal”, February 27th, 1898 (engraving)

French School, (19th century)

ID: 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