PCT4273518: La Poste: rural mailman. In uniform and hewn with a kepi, the postman leaves on the roads to deliver letters (mail) to the inhabitants of isolated houses (farms) in the countryside. Illustration by Louis Maitrejean (1895-1947) for a school book of 1930., Maitrejean, Louis (1895-1947) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4271752: Icelandic fisherman, novel by Pierre Loti. “” Nouvelle Collection Illustree”, Calmann-Levy, 1924 edition. Illustration by Henri Edmond Rudaux (1865-1927). Typical scene of Brittany: laundry. The villagers wash their clothes in the pool, near the calvary., Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4272482: Excerpt from the Alphabet of the Child Jesus, edition Alfred Mame a Tours, 1929. Each page offers two large decorative lettrines, with their Christian entry (letter A as love, B as goodness... up to Z as zele). X: first letter of the name of Christ in the Greek language (cf. Xmas in English). / Bridgeman Images
PCT4273894: Philip II (Philip Augustus 1165 - 1223) instituting the first laws of public hygiene, noted on parchment by a copist monk. Under the rule of this king of France, the main roads of Paris were pavees, and the French capital was called “Paris sans pairs” (without equals). Detail of an advertising chromolitography (chromo) of Chocolat d'Annecy, early 20th century. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4271122: Fete de Saint Eloi, patron of the menagers, near Arles in Provence. The villagers dance farandole to the sound of the fife and the drum, cheeks by the drummer. Illustration for a Flammarion 1904 edition. of the “Lettres de mon moulin” by Alphonse Daudet (L'Arlesienne). / Bridgeman Images
PCT4272151: Captured by pirates, taken to Turkey and employed in the kitchens of a Turkish Pasha, Panurge revolts and kills the Pasha by piercing it with a pin. Illustration of Robida for the Gargantua de Rabelais - Librairie Armand Colin debut 20th century., Robida, Albert (1848-1926) / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250379: The Giali Tzami Mosques (Mosques of the sea side) also known as the Kioutsouk (little) Hassan, is a bright example of the Islamic art of the Renaissance. Work of an armenian architect, This Mosques is the only preverved Mosques of the city of Chania that was built during the second half of the 17th Century. Chania, Crete. / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250599: Archaeological site of Gournia. Work and storage houses of the palace in the north west aera. Gournia is the best preserved of all Minoan cities, and has been characterized as the “” Pompei Minoan Crete””. The cities has been found as it is now and has never been rebuilt. Gournia offers a picture of the daily life of the Minoan, who were engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry, fishing and vase-making as shown by the tools discovered in the settlement. Crete / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250290: Minoan archeological site of Phaistos. General view of the west wing shrines along the central court from the north wing. There were two types of shrine: “Bench shrine” and “Lutral Basin””. The “” bench Shrine”” was a small and rectangular room with low benches running round the walls to support cult objects and figurine of the deity. On some of them were found female figurine, ritual vessels, and “” offering tables”” (small altar). The “” Lustral Basin”” type was a room lower than the founding structures, with a few steps leading down into them. It was used for purification rituals., Minoan / Bridgeman Images