PIX4621945: Star Alnitak and nebula NGC 2024 in the constellation Orion - Star Alnitak (Zeta Orionis) and nebula NGC 2024 in the constellation Orion about 1500 years - light from Earth. Image based on data obtained with the Oschin telescope of Mount Palomar / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622022: The prayer, 1883 (oil on canvas), Beraud, Jean (1849-1935) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622127: The Horsehead Nebula in infrared - The Horsehead Nebula in infrared - This infrared image shows the nebula of the horse's head (right) accompanied by the small nebula NGC 2023. Image obtained from the 4 meter diameter telescope VISTA and the Hubble space telescope. This Hubble space telescope and VISTA (infrared ESO 4 meter telescope) view shows the Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33), at right, and the reflection nebula NGC 2023 / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622137: Vogesen Bilder (images of the Vosges): Visit of the castle, 1908 (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622150: The Upper Koenigsbourg in the Vosges and its inauguration: Le cortege, 1908 (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622174: Detail in nebula IC 1318 in Cygn / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622209: Nebula IC 1396 in Cephee - This beautiful nebula of hydrogen gas and dust is a stellar nursery that host many young stars in the constellation of Cepheus. It is the large IC 1396 emission nebula complex. Within the nebula is located the Elephant Trunck Nebula. The IC 1396 is about 3,000 light years distant / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622302: L'Ecole polytechnique, 1 rue Descartes in Paris 75005. From its creation in 1794, the school, which took the name of Polytechnique in September 1795, was thus clearly defined. She must give her students a solid scientific training, based on mathematics, physics and chemistry, and train them to enter the special schools of the public services of the State, such as the school of application of artillery and genie, the school of mines or that of Ponts et Chaussees. To take over the students judges who were too indisciplinary outside, Napoleon decided to take over them by imposing a military regime on them in 1804. They set them up on the Sainte Genevieve Mountain, in the premises of the College of Navarre and the College of Boncourt. Place they will not leave until 1976. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622354: The chapel of the Sorbonne in Paris. Architect Jacques Lemercier (1585-1654), construction 1635-1642. Founded in 1258, this college quickly became the seat of the faculty of theology of the University of Paris. Except for the chapel dating from the 18th century, there are only buildings dating from the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622367: L'alsace Heureé: La ronde enfantine à Guemar (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622386: Nebulas IC 1805 and IC 1848 in Cassiopee - Nebulas IC 1805 and IC 1848 in Cassiopeia - IC 1848 (left) is an emission nebula associated with a cluster of stars; it also houses the CR 34 star cluster. On the right, the largest nebula, IC 1805. LBN 667 is the large area of red emission nebulosity on the left side of the image. Open clusters CR 34 and IC 1848 are embedded in the nebula. IC 1805 is the large area of nebulosity on the right side of the image. NGC 896, a bright knot of nebulosity, is at the upper right of the photo. IC 1805 looks vaguely like a heart if you rotate your head 90 degrees counterclockwise and use your imagination when you look at the photo. The loose open cluster Mel 15 lies at the center of IC 1805, and open cluster NGC 1027 is just above right of the center of the image at top / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622422: The story of Alsace tells the children: Cesar et ses legions (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622449: Detail in nebula IC 1848 in Cassiopee - Detail in nebula IC 1848 in Cassiope / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622464: Urban signage between Boulevard Saint Michel and Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris 5e. / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622119: Vogesen Bilder: At the Hotel de la Schucht ' How devil the boy could have guessed that we are German', 1908 (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4622212: The Circumcision, detail (Painting, 1635-1640), Reni, Guido (1575-1642) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622220: Frontispice of the book ' L'alsace Happy', Editions Floury, 1919 (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622308: L'alsace Heureé: La lecon de Francais dans la village de Chatenois (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622392: Elephant tube nebula (VDB 142) in Cephee - The Elephant Trunk Nebula (VDB 142) in Cepheus - IC1396, VDB 142. Nebula located about 2700 years - light from Earth. Image obtained with a telescope 61 cm in diameter. The Elephant Trunk Nebula (IC 1396A) in Cepheus is part of the larger IC 1396 complex which spans a large area of the sky measuring 170 by 140 arc - minutes and is one of the brightest emission nebulae with a magnitude of 3.5. The western portion of IC 1396 contains the Elephant Trunk Nebula (IC 1396A) which is characterized with H - II emissions, dark lanes and globules as well as a small reflection nebula. This stellar nursery lies at a distance of 2,720 light - years away. Image taken with a 24 - inch telescope / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622475: Musee national du Middle Ages et des thermal baths de Cluny, 6 place Paul Painleve in Paris in the 5th arrondissement.The thermal baths of Cluny date from the end of the 3rd century. They were the largest of the three ancient establishments in the public baths of Lutece. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4622483: Jesus in the house of Martha and Mary of Bethany, 1620 (painting), Steenwyk, Hendrik van (the Younger) (c.1580-1649) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622493: The story of Alsace tells the children: Construction of a cathedrale (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622513: Eglise Notre Dame du Val de Grace (1624-1669) in Paris. The church is the fruit of the wish of Queen Anne of Austria to raise a beautiful temple to God if he sent her a son. After twenty-three years of marriage, in 1638, the future Louis XIV was born, who laid the first stone on 1 April 1645 and the construction ended at the end of the 1660s with sculptural and pictorial decoration. The works were first entrusted to Mansart, to which Le Mercier was succeeded, having worked notably at the Hotel de St Aignan and the Bibliotheque of Mazarin, and then Le Muet, who attended Le Duc. In 1649, the disturbances of the Fronde led to a long interruption of work, which did not resume until 1655. Photography 10/08/98. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622484: Grande Mosquee de Paris, 2 bis place du Puits de l'Ermite, Paris 5th. Construction 1922-1926, architects Fournez, Heubes and Mantout. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622542: The Faculty of Sciences of Jussieu, Paris. Construction 1971, architects Edouard Alber, Urbain Cassan, Rene Coulon and Roger Seassal. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622507: Grande Mosquee de Paris, 2 bis place du Puits de l'Ermite, Paris 5th. Construction 1922-1926, architects Fournez, Heubes and Mantout. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4622525: The descent of Jesus Christ to the limbo, detail of an angel, 1568 (painting), Tintoretto, Domenico Robusti (1560-1635) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622532: Nebula IC 2948 in Centaur - Bok's cells - A group of Bok globules in IC 2948 - View of a detail of nebula IC 2948 in the center Centaur on Bok's cells. A Bok's blood cell is a dark interstellar cloud of gases and dust that absorb light. If it condenses enough, it gives birth to new stars. The dark spots in the picture are not photographic defects but an unusual type of interstellar cloud known as a Bok globule. Bok globules, named after astronomer Bart Bok who studied them extensively, are small dark clouds made of gas and dust that are typically condensing to form a star or stars. These Bok globules are located at a distance of about 6000 light years near IC 2944 cluster in the emission nebula IC 2948 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622673: Nebula IC 4628 in Scorpio - Nebula IC 4628 in Scorpius - Nebula has a low light emission, IC 4628 (or Gum 56) is alongside the open cluster Collinder 316, which houses many young hot stars. Image obtained through 3 different filters that highlight oxygen (blue), hydrogen (green), and sulfur (red). This beautiful, arc - like rim of nebulosity is in the far southern sky, out of sight from most of the USA and Europe. It is quite faint and has often been overlooked because of it, even by southern observers. However, it is in a rich region in Scorpius. This richness is reflected in the number of names associated with the objects in the field illustrated here. There is a large scattered star cluster, Collinder 316 which extends over most of the picture. It encloses Trumpler 24, more or less the same cluster under another name, and all of this is part of the Sco OB1 association, a much larger gathering of very hot, intrinsically luminous stars in this part of the sky. The nebula itself is also known as Gum 56, after the Australian Colin Gum who catalogued emission nebulae in the southern sky using wide field photography. This image is in the classic “” Hubble palette”” where SII is assigned to red, H - alpha to green, and OIII to blue. RGB frames were taken for star colors / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622621: The story of Alsace tells the children: War of Revolution (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622774: My village, those who do not forget: German tourists (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622696: Napoleonic War: "The French infantry against the Prussian cavalry", 19th century (watercolour), Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4622712: The tricolor paradise: At the border (print), Waltz, Jean-Jacques (Hansi) (1873-1951) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4622722: Portrait of a quality lady and her daughter Painting by Antoine (Antoon or Anton) Van Dyck (1599-1641), 1628-1632 Sun. 204x135 cm Paris, musee du Louvre - Portrait of a Lady and her daughter. Painting by Anton Van Dyck 1599-1641, 1628-1632, 204 x 135 cm. Musee du Louvre Paris France., Dyck, Anthony van (1599-1641) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622732: Cocon Nebula (IC 5146) in the Cygn / Bridgeman Images

TEC4622737: Henri IV high school in Paris. / Bridgeman Images