PCT4277943: At the beginning of the 20th century, school curricula were very linked to rural life. This excerpt from a reading book shows a country guard from the French countryside. However, in this lecture of village morality, highlighting the sound “” on” (phoneme), the text is not entirely in line with the image: indeed, if the guard seems to have a sword, he wears a cap and not a tricorn! / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678553: A suit of a Genoese demi-launcers' armour in the possession of Llewelyn Meyrick, 1543. Black armour with raised foliage; pauldrons, elbow-pieces and knee-pieces with raised lion's heads. Sword-breaking weapon. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4260936: Cartoon d'animaux - soldats: Grandville engraving, extracted from the book Private and Public Life of Animals (“Les animaux ints par eux memes”), Hetzel edition 1867 p. 561 - Chapter entitled “Tablets of the Giraffe”, written by Charles Nodier. Extract from the text: “” The occasion of these massacres is usually the sound nothing called a word, or the indefinable nothing called an idea. In the absence of the natural weapons that the wise forecast of Providence has denied to man, he has invented, for these horrific collisions, instruments of death that infallibly destroy all that they touch and which are generally copies of those whose nature has equipped the Animals for their defense; they are seen carrying alongside the thigh, with a sort of of pride, a long and pointed sword like that of the Unicorn or a curved and sharp sword like that of the Grasshopper.”, Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard) (1803-47) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5121244: World War II Invasion of France Part of the British invasion fleet bound for the Gold Juno and Sword Normandy beaches seen here on the morning of D-day from the cliffs overlooking Folkestone. Destroyers of the Royal Navy lay a smoke screen to hide the fleet from the French coast The Pier at Folkstone, Kent, with war ships in the distance June 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676984: Military costume: a soldier with a small shield and an epee, 14th century - Soldier with small shield, sword and plumed helmet, from the Titius Livius manuscript in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, 14th century - Handcolored illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4565238: Costume of Henry IV of France (1553-1610), called the Bearnais, 16th century. Lace ruff, suit of black silk with slashed breeches, sword. Handcoloured lithograph after a design by Leon Sault from “” L'Art du Travestissement” (The Art of Fancy Dress), Paris, c.1880. Sault was a theatre and opera designer and luxury fashion magazine publisher. / Bridgeman Images