DPA5346317: A pictured dated 08 Juli 1962 shows German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (L) and French president Charles de Gaulle during a mass at the Cathedrale of Reims, France. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande commemorated their countries' post-war conciliation on 08 July 2012, noting the importance of the Franco-German friendship to European integration. 'Europe is much more than just a currency,' said Merkel at the meeting in the French town of Rheims, 'and indispensable to it are Franco-German relations. They have significantly shaped and advanced European unity.' The two leaders attended a memorial service at Rheims Cathedral, marking the 50th anniversary of the July 8, 1962 meeting in the town of France's Charles de Gaulle and Germany's Konrad Adenauer - who signed a Franco-German friendship treaty (photo) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937916: Atrocities of the Rubber Slavery in the Belgian Congo. Natives hold the severed hands of two countrymen murdered by rubber sentries in May 1904. The white men are Edgar Stannard and John Harris, Baptist missionaries, who documented many such atrocities for humanitarian activist Edward Morel / Bridgeman Images
YOU4419667: Statue of Niccolo Machiavelli (Nicolas Machiavel) (1469-1527), politician, Italian philosopher, author of The Prince (Il Principe), Sculpture by Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850), installed in the piazzale des offices (piazzale degli Uffizi) in Florence. Photography, KIM Youngtae, Florence, Tuscany, Italy., Bartolini, Lorenzo (1777-1850) / Bridgeman Images
YOU4418864: The lantern tower on the terraces of the Chateau de Chambord, French civil architecture Renaissance style, construction dating back to the 16th century, having as its function the natural lighting of the double-revolution staircase, it bears in its upper part the emblem of Francois 1st, carved salamanders and ends with a carved flower of lilies at the top, marking the culmination of the building and thus symbolizing the royal power. Photography, KIM Youngtae, Chateau de Chambord (Chateau de la Loire), Chambord, Loir et Cher, Centre. / Bridgeman Images