PCT4284087: Family scene at the beginning of the 20th century - the father reads his diary (Le Figaro), the mother helps her daughter to do her homework and the other girl plays dominoes - play - intimacy - table - reading - writing - parents and children - anonymous photograph undated (before 1910), original print sepia 10 x 15 cm glue on cardboard - Patrice Cartier collection - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4284269: Letter letter letter C by Montader, opening the first chapter of Paul Largilliere's book “” Cerisette”, late 19th century. The illustration on this first page is boldly housed inside and above this gigantic letter occupying the height of about fifteen lines of the text - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4285713: Illustration of the book by Leo Taxil and J. Vindex “Marat ou les heros de la revolution””, Librairie anti-clerical (anti-clerical, anticlerical) 1883 - Revolution Francaise - transport to the Mint of sacred utensils from the churches (crosses, statues of saints, chalices, orstensoirs, ciboires, reliquaries, etc.) this useless gold - religion - outrage - blaspheme - sacrilege act - Cardon engraving - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4285753: First World War 1914-1918 (14-18): three French soldiers (hairy) layers inside their “cagna” (makeshift shelter in the trench, made of recuperation materials) - a play of checkers, books and victuals (bottles of sparkling wine and dry cakes) sent by the families of the fighters - trench - front - negative photographic anonymous, private collection - see similar view: GUT6662 -, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4285758: First World War 1914-1918 (14-18): French soldier (hairy) at rest, lying in his cagna (makeshift shelter brought in the trenches of the front or near). In the foreground: the famous Pigeon lamp, working with mineral essence and able to illuminate for more than 15 hours - Anonymous negative of the period., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4285846: Plate extracted from the Oryctology of Argenville (1755) - This engraving shows parts of the human body petrified, or at least what was taken in the 18th century for fossil men - 1: skeleton of salamander found in a miocene terrain near Constance and described by Scheuchzer as that of a man witness of the deluge (homo diluvii testivii s ) - 2: petrified vertebrae belonging pretenduously to the back of a man and which are in reality those of a fossil reptile, the ichtyosaur - 3: Modern head of pathological nature (hyperostosis) preserved in the gallery of Anthropology of the Musee de l'Homme - Legends after the book of Marcellin Boule “Les Hommes fossiles”, edition Masson 1923 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4283686: Marrakesh in the middle of the 20th century (between 1950 and 1960). Place Jamaa al-Fna (Jema el Fna - Jema el Fna - Jemaa el Fna - Jamaa al Fna - Jamaa el Fna - Jemaa el Fna - Jemaa-el-Fna - Djema el Fna - Djemaa-el-Fna) - snake charmers - postcard on real Bertrand photo paper - Patrice Cartier Collection. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4283766: The English inventor Cocking had invented a sort of parachute conceived in reverse of an ordinary parachute: it had the shape of a reverse cone - On 27 Sept. 1836 Cocking carried out his experience with the English aeronaut Green, who, convinced of the correctness of the inventor's reasoning, did not hesitate to remove the attachment to the nacelle of his balloon. both rose from Vauxhall to London, and climbed to an altitude of 1,200 metres - At this height Green cut the rope that connected the Cocking balloon and its aircraft - The parachute returns to precipita in the air with a destitute speed - His ill-calculated surface deformed, and the unfortunate aviator was startled to the Soil with ever increasing rapidity - Cocking was crushed by shock, and his body was raised to shattered - Engraving illustrating Gaston Tissandier's book “La navigation aerienne””” in the collection “Bibliotheque des merveilles””” of Editions Hachette, 1886 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4283813: L'insecte mecanique designed by Etienne Jules (Etienne-Jules) Marey (1830-1903), French physiologist who worked on the decomposition of the animal movement thanks to photography - flight of birds and insects - helice - wing - Engraving illustrating Gaston Tissandier's book “La navigation aerienne””” in the collection “Bibliotheque des merveilles”” of editions Hachette, 1886 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4283861: In 1859, an aeronaut, Camille Vert, operated several times an airship of his invention, which he designed as a flying fish - This aerostat stretches, helice balloon was driven by a small steam machine - It operated in front of the public at the Palais de l'Industrie in Paris on 27 Oct. 1859, before Emperor Napoleon III - Engraving of Gaston Tissandier's book “” La navigation aerienne””” in the collection “” Bibliotheque des merveilles””” of Editions Hachette, 1886 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4283873: Flying apparatus of P Besnier, locksmith of Sable in the country of Maine - Reproduction of the figure of the Journal des scavans (scholars - 1678) - description: A, right wing front - B, left wing rear - C, left wing front - D, right wing rear - E, string of left foot that lowers wing D, when left hand lowers wing C - F, String of the right foot that lowers the D wing when the left hand lowers the C wing - Engraving illustrating Gaston Tissandier's book “” La navigation aerienne””” in the collection “Bibliotheque des merveilles””” of Editions Hachette, 1886 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4283307: La catastrophe de Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (Saint Gervais les Bains - Haute-Savoie - Haute Savoie - Alpes), Glacier de Tette-Rousse (Tete Rousse), 12 July 1892: engraving from an article by Charles Durier in the journal Le Tour du Monde 1892 - drawing by Gotorbe after a photograph by Rusche - the establishment of the bath before the park) - avalanche - flood - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4283323: La catastrophe de Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (Saint Gervais les Bains - Haute-Savoie - Haute Savoie - Alpes), Glacier de Tette-Rousse (Tete Rousse), 12 July 1892: engraving from an article by Charles Durier in Le Tour du Monde 1892 - drawing by Gotorbe after a photograph of Tairraz - view of the village of the avalanche - reed - flood - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4283347: Radical-Socialists (socialist radicals): cartoon by Achille Lemot (1846-1909) in Le Pelerin (1909) - a worker crashes under the burden of taxes, taxes and inconveniences resulting from the mismanagement of the government and Georges Clemenceau - strikes, demonstrations, deficit, anticlericalism, disasters theft, confiscation, evictions, Dreyfus case..., Lemot, Achille (1846-1909) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4283351: Isaac, old and almost blind, after eating the kid brought by his son Jacob under the impulse of his mother Rebecca, believing that it is Esau - a biblical episode known as the blessing of Isaac or Jacob - from the first volume of a historical Bible printed in Paris around 1487 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4283382: La catastrophe de Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (Saint Gervais les Bains - Haute-Savoie - Haute Savoie - Alpes), Glacier de Tette-Rousse (Tete Rousse), 12 July 1892: engraving from an article of the magazine L'Univers Illustrée 1892 - drawings by Edouard Riou - The thermal establishment before and after the catastrophe - destruction of the catastrophe - victims - rescue by hairdresser Denzler - flood - avalanche - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4283391: La catastrophe de Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (Saint Gervais les Bains - Haute-Savoie - Haute Savoie - Alpes), Glacier de Tette-Rousse (Tete Rousse), 12 July 1892: engraving from an article in Journal des Voyages 1892 - L'establishment thermal avant la catastrophe - flood - avalanche - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4283478: An ancestral custom of Berber Morocco, the Boujloud takes place a few days after the celebration of Aid al-Adha or Aid al-Kabir (Aid el-Kebir - Aid el-Kebir - Fete of Sacrifice) - Young men and boys coat themselves with the skin of sacrificed sheep and pursue passers-by by hitting them with the feet of animals if they do not give any money. Various masks and disguises blend in at Boujloud, assimilating this tradition to that of carnival or halloween - Ait-Ourir Region, near Marrakech, November 2013 - Photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4283487: An ancestral custom of Berber Morocco, the Boujloud takes place a few days after the celebration of Aid al-Adha or Aid al-Kabir (Aid el-Kebir - Aid el-Kebir - Fete of Sacrifice) - Young men and boys coat themselves with the skin of sacrificed sheep and pursue passers-by by hitting them with the feet of animals if they do not give any money. Various masks and disguises blend in at Boujloud, assimilating this tradition to that of carnival or halloween - Ait-Ourir Region, near Marrakech, November 2013 - Photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images