PCT4267878: 19th century map of the department of Herault (34, Languedoc Roussillon), extracted from the Atlas Migeon de Vuillemin. This map is accompanied by illustrations showing the weapons of Montpellier and a view of the port of Celle (today Sete, dominates by Mont Saint Clair, on the banks of the Lion Gulf). There are also portraits of the two great men of the department: Pierre Paul Riquet, Baron de Bonrepos (1604 or 1609-1680), engineer who created and realised the Canal du Midi in the south of France between the Garonne and the Mediterranean Sea, and Guillaume Louis Figuier (1819 -1894), writer and scientific popularizer. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4268078: Engraving by Alfred Johannot illustrating “” Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem”” by Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, edition Furne 1859. Chateaubriand made this trip to the Orient in 1806 and published his notes in 1811. This illustration shows the watch leaving Bethleem on horseback, under the protection of men with rifles. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4275826: L'Hell (La divina commedia) by Dante Alighieri illustrated by Gustave Dore. Edition Hachette 1861 - Demon - French translation by Pier-Angelo Fiorentino.... Si mosse, e grido: Tu se 'giunto! (he elanced and shouted: I have him!) - Twenty-second song (Chant 22- XXII) - (ca. 126)., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4275994: Carcassonne (Aude - 11 - Languedoc-Roussillon): Grand Hotel Terminus. Inaugurated in June 1914, the building was surmounted by a dome containing a water tower, now disappeared. The establishment, at the forefront of modernism of the period, consisted of 125 rooms and apartments on 4 levels. The hotel still exists under the same name in 2011. Postcard of 1917 / Bridgeman Images