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
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
PCT4270625: Lovers: postcard early 20th century. A young man, wearing an operette uniform, offers a young country from Ile de France to take him to Paris (25 kilometres away), under a sign indicating: be careful! Dangerous slope! “With his most enjolous voice, he declares his love to her., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4271999: Wallet of 20 real photos published at the Liberation de Paris (19 to 26 August 1944). In the centre: general (then marechal) Philippe Leclerc of Hauteclocque (1902-1947). Arrest of German prisoners by the FFI, reception of American soldiers, General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) in front of the grave of the unknown soldier. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4272006: French boxing: board extracted from a work from the beginning of the 20th century. 1: guard - 2: stop on low kick - 3: low kick and leg dodge - 4: training exercise - 5: kick on the kidneys - 6: hook - 7: direct from left to stomach - 8: direct from left to jaw - 9: cross from right to heart - 10: blow from bottom to top (uppercut) of the right - 11 and 12: swing and response from the left to the stomach - 13: fight, opponents and referee in the ring - 14: knock out. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4272149: The army of Quaresmeprenant. Soldiers are represented as fish, some of which have only the aretes, by reference to Careme's lean (young) meal. Illustration by Albert Robida (1848-1926) for an episode of the Fourth Livre by Francois Rabelais - Librairie Armand Colin debut 20th century., Robida, Albert (1848-1926) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4262603: Cartoon of “modern” transport by Gustave Dore around 1850:2 trains hit each other and a passenger train derails and falls from the top of a bridge; a carriage is divided into 2 and overturns after the horse pulling it has been packed; only the wheelchair seems to find grace in the eyes of the artist., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4262850: Valais Alps, Switzerland, circa 1890, around Zermatt. Drawing leaves on the door of the Matterhorn hut by an climber (climber): a man falling into the void is held by another thanks to a rope and exclaims “” Saved! Saved! Saved!!! “” (Save, save, save!!!) - Drawing reproduced in Emile Yung's book “Zermatt and the Vallee de la Viege”” 1894. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4262922: Reconstruction of a classroom in the beginning of the 20th century. The teacher, next to his office, interrogates a student on the blackboard. Inscribed on another painting, under the tricolour flag and the Marianne of the French Republic, a sentence by Victor Hugo, illustrating the moral lesson: “Every child you teach is a man you win”. School Museum, Carcassonne. Photo by Patrice Cartier. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4263786: The sheep-sheep hunter, Sioux. Mountain sheep, grazing in the most inaccessible parts of the Bad Lands, were sought only by the most daring hunters. Photo taken from volume 3 of Edward S. Curtis's encyclopedia (1868-1952) on North American Indians, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published., Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images