XEE4192611: Gabrielle de Vergy disputes her fiance, Eudes de Fayel, who is jealous of the friendship she has with her cousin, Albert de Nozereau. Scene of a 12th century legend. Engraving from 1871 in “Histoire Des Cocus Celebres”” by Henry de Kock (1819-1892)., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4192676: The Duchess of Cleves, Mary von Julich Duchess of Juliers and Berg (1491-1543), learns of the dissolution of the marriage between her daughter, Anne of Cleves (1515-1557), and the King of England Henry VIII (1491-1547) in 1540. Engraving from 1871 in “Histoire Des Cocuses Celebres”” by Henry de Kock (1819-1892)., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4193018: First World War 1914-1918: nurse (Therese Pavillou?) in a blouse on the grave of French pilot sergeant Roux, who died at the age of 21, at Couville, Manche, Basse-Normandie (Lower Normandy), France. Anonymous photograph July 1917. Private collection, Stella., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4193131: La Seine Inferieure, now Seine Maritime (76), Haute Normandy (Haute-Normandie), France. Local specialities: cotton, cider, saur herring. Portrait of Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Series on the French Departments. Chromolithography (Chromo) “” the geographic thread””, circa 1920. Private collection., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4193172: Pyrenees Orientales (66), Languedoc-Roussillon, Languedoc Roussillon, France. Portrait of Dominique Francois Jean Arago (1786-1853). Local speciality: Honey and Sardines. Series on the French Departments. Chromolithography (Chromo) “” the geographic thread””, circa 1920. Private collection., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4193181: Lot et Garonne (Lot-et-Garonne, 47), Aquitaine, France. Tobacco factory, turkey breeding, wine, corks, plums, brandy, therebentine gasoline. Portrait of Bernard Germain Etienne de Laville-sur-Illon, Count of Lacepede (or de la Cepede, 1756-1825). Series on the French Departments. Chromolithography (Chromo) “” the geographic thread””, circa 1920. Private collection., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images