PCT4267269: Information leaflet disseminated by the Ministry of Agriculture and the institute of wines of current consumption in 1954/1955, encouraging winegrowers (winegrowers) to grubb up their vines in order to receive subsidies (compensation = voluntary grubbing-up premium) and avoid compulsory grubbing-up. Measures fixed by a decree of 30/9/1953. A cheque from Credit Agricole Mutuel's Caisse Regionale, issued for the sum of 480 000 francs representing 1 hectare of vine ripped off. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4267183: English dictionary for the soldier, by Franck Henius. A small dictionary and conversation manual for American soldiers debarking in France in 1944. The infantry journal. American military helmet and archetype representation of the French peasant, cap and mustache, arms open as a welcome sign. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4267216: Young woman looking after an old man dying in his bed, under a crucifix hanging from the wall. The dying man holds his last recommendations (will) by hand. Detail of an engraving by Emile Bayard illustrating Jules Sandeau's book “Mademoiselle de la Seigliere”, Hetzel edition 1884., Bayard, Emile Antoine (1837-91) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4267519: Funeral of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, 15 December 1840. Return of the ashes of Napoleon I to Paris: the cortege and the catafalque on the Champs-Elysees. Engraving by L. Mouchot, published in the complete works of Victor Hugo, Librairie Paul Ollendorff, early 20th century. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4267565: Victor Hugo “” Les Miserables””: Jean Valjean, who became rich under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, is doing good around him. But his enemy police inspector Javert suspects his identity and ends up arresting him, while Fantine (Cosette's mother) dies. Valjean and Javert, engraving by Emile Bayard., Bayard, Emile Antoine (1837-91) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4267678: Cover of a popular novel with rose water appearing in a fascicle (1926). Marcel Priollet was one of the specialists of this popular literature featuring in river soap operas the desolate adventures of poor abused girls, girls-mother, etc. Here a young woman is “sold in the spring of her life”, a handful of thousand francs banknotes is thrown into her face by an anonymous male hand. Booklet Jules Tallandier, “the beautiful romance novels””., Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4267635: Extract from a booklet of the Catalan aperitif Byrrh, to the attention of the Anlo-Saxon market, circa 1930. The text states that Byrrh (based in Thuir, Eastern Pyrenees) produces 16 million gallons of wine annually (72 million litres), which are exported to the four corners of the world. Photograph in helioengraving of the quay from the crates, with its beautiful metal frame. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4267820: Illustration of Pinocchio by Carlo Chiostri (1863-1939), one of the first Italian illustrators of Collodi's work. The wooden puppet will be swallowed by a terrible shark, despite the help of the blue fee that has taken the look of a goat perched on a rock in the middle of the sea., Chiostri, Carlo (1863-1939) / Bridgeman Images
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
PCT4265237: Illustration (engraving in soft size) of the title page of the tenth volume of the Cours complet d'agriculture theorique, pratique, economique et de medecine rural et veterinaire or Dictionnaire universel d'agriculture de l'abbe Rozier, published in Paris, Librairie d'Education et des Sciences et Arts, an 8 (1800). Harvest scene. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4265266: Title page illustrated from the tenth and last volume of the Cours complet d'agriculture theorique, pratique, economique et de medecine rurale et veterinaire or Dictionnaire universel d'agriculture de l'abbe Rozier, published in Paris, Librairie d'Education et des Sciences et Arts, an 8 (1800). / Bridgeman Images
PCT4267932: First illuminated page of a 14th century manuscript (anonymous copist) of letters of Petrarch (Petrarca) written before his death in 1374. The first capital is adorned with a portrait of the poet (illumination) bordered by sober acanth leaves. (Rerum Senilium Liber, Carcassonne Library). / 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