PCT4289851: Grande route des Alpes or Route des Grandes Alpes Francaises - Col de la Madeleine - shepherd, cart and cyclists - tourist a bike - Alpine tourism by bicycle - cycling at the beginning of the 20th century - postcard sent in 1926 - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4289861: Book cover 'Becassine aux bains de mer', 1932 (print), Pinchon, Joseph Porphyre (1871-1953) / Bridgeman Images

PCT4289871: Mountaineering at the beginning of the 20th century (around 1900): climb of the Meije glacier - mountaineers - Alps, Dauphine, Pelvoux massif - Ecrins National Park - climbing - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4289899: Illustrated page of the Catechisme en images was first published in 1908 by the Maison de la Bonne Presse and republished until 1942. This edition dates back to 1932. Catholic religion -teaching of the Lord - proselytism - the Commandments: The One God worships by the Christian people - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4289906: Illustrated page of the Catechisme en images was first published in 1908 by the Maison de la Bonne Presse and republished until 1942. This edition dates back to 1932. Catholic religion -Christian teaching - proselytism - death of the righteous and death of the sinner - last sacraments - divine punishment - hell and paradise - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4289940: Quimper (Finistere, Brittany) at the beginning of the 20th century: old houses on the Steir - postcard LL - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4289967: Quimper (Finistere, Brittany) at the beginning of the 20th century: Breton faiencerie of the Grande Maison founded in 1420: the tour a cow - faience, faiencier, handicrafts - postcard Villard - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290005: Quimper (Finistere, Brittany) at the beginning of the 20th century: the port and the dock, boats on the Odet, lavandieres, children - postcard Villard - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290011: Col de l'Iseran 2770 metres - route des Alpes between 1940 and 1950, the highest road in Europe at the time - the great Charbonel, the Mean-Martin and the chapel with a Citroen Traction-Front car (front drive) parking in front (see also GUT7682) - CIM real photo postcard (Combier Printer Macon) - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290036: Drawing by Victor Hugo, made in Lucerne (Switzerland) on September 13, 1839 for his older daughter Leopoldine - an old wooden bridge - at the bottom left, Hugo wrote: “” what I see from my window, for my Didine”””. In a letter attached to the drawing, he states: “The species of saucer that is on the tower is a stork's nest.”” / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290051: Portrait Charge of the Writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885), Drawing (1840) by Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Isabey (1765-1855) private collection - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290063: At sea baths, on the beach - girl - girl in swimsuit one piece - swimming, holidays, summer - postcard Neurdein, early 20th century (circa 1900) - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290069: Three dancers: charcoal and pastel on paper (circa 1880) by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) - private collection - dance, ballet, tutu, slippers, opera - hair, hair - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290127: Sicilia, Italia (Sicily, Italy): Roman art: detail of the mosaic “” The great hunting part”” - 2 hunters wearing shields - the tunic of one is marked with a svastika (swastika, gammee cross), its shield is adorned with a boar - 315-350 AD Piazza Armerina, Villa Romana del Roman villa - Photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290141: The wolf devore the grandmother: The Little Red Riding Hood, tale by Charles Perrault (1628-1703) Illustration Henri Thiriet (1873-1946). Around 1930. / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290207: Art of the trench - slicing, crafts: object made by the soldiers (hairy) during the First World War of 14-18 (1914 - 1918) - lighter of the hairy, made with a gun shell - at the base, a plaque engraved with the inscription Ministry of Finance - copper and brassware - souvenir, ammunition - private collection - Photo by Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290323: Used old soap, Marseille soap - wash, hygiene, toilet, cleanliness - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290495: History of Algeria from the most retreating times to the present day: illustration of a book by J.J. E. Leroy in the Mame editions, half 19th century - this edition of 1864 was offered as a prize book (distribution of prizes) in French primary schools - taken from Constantine, after the siege, by French soldiers on 13 October 1837 - engraving by Karl Girardet (1813-1871) - conquete, colonization, colony - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290530: Stamp commemorating the centenary of the conquete of Algeria by France (1830 - 1930) and encouraging tourists to visit the French colony on this occasion - colonial tourism, colonialism - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290549: Human Zoo in Paris, the Senegalese village of Porte Maillot at the beginning of the 20th century (1907) - members of an African tribe (African, black, negres), the chef and his family - colourful postcard of the period - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290567: Reclaim (advertisement) for Dentol toothpaste (French product) in the newspaper La Depeche du Midi during the War of 1914 - 1918 - The illustration is a Senegalese shooter explaining the contrast with a German soldier wearing a pointed helmet. He speaks in “” little negre”””: “” li white skin eat bread KK (poop), more teeth - Me, black skin, white teeth! “” - The image of those called the Negres was very used at the time. The most famous is the Senegalese gunner from Banania (see GU0012 and GU0013- / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290595: Two French soldiers in djellaba during the Algerian War - 1961), military garrison of Miliana (Miliana-Affreville, Affreville) (formerly Maliana, since 1963 Khemis-Miliana or Khemis Miliana) at the foot of the Zaccar Mountains - France, colony - family archives, private collection Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290603: Interior of a mosquee in Algiers (French Algerie) - illustration by Raffet for the book “L'Algerie ancienne et moderne” by Leon Galibert, edition Furne 1844 - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290670: The portrait of the Ogresse, from "Le Rire Rouge", 1915 (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290693: Cover of the newspaper “” Le Rire rouge “”, war edition No. 8 of 9 January 1915, director Felix Juven - Epiphany, the king drinks - drawing by Albert Guillaume (1873-1942) showing a helmet with a German tip mark of a death's head flowing into the waters of a flooded plain - German army - boche - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290724: Illustration by Rene Vincent (1879-1936) of the book (1906-1907) by Frank-Nohain (Franc Nohain) dedicated to the clowns duo FooIT and Chocolat - Rafael Padilla (1866 or 1868-1917), nicknamed “Chocolate” (black clown) - “” the young negre, who was not afraid to blackening his complexion, committed to earn a living at the Bilbao mines. This comment, which may now seem racist, was intended at the benevolent times - minor, circus, racism, child labor, childhood-, Vincent, Rene (1871-1936) / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290756: Emperor Charlemagne watching the arrival of Norman ships on the French coast - Viking ships and warriors - drakkar, Scandinavian navigation, Nordic invasion - engraving by Emile Bayard illustrating “The history of popular France by Henri Martin, 19th century., Bayard, Emile Antoine (1837-91) / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290768: French soldier photography in front of a marabout, a Muslim cemetery and a palm grove (oasis) in Reggan (Reggane, on the edge of the Tanezrouft desert), Algeria (south Algeria) on February 13, 1960, day of the first French atomic bomb test (experimentation called Gerboise Bleue) carried out in these surroundings - colony, colonization, blackfoot , black foot - nuclear explosion, radioactive fallout, cancer - Amateur photography, period black and white print, family archives, Patrice Cartier private collection - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290782: girl holding a big cat in her arms - love of beets - affection of a child for an animal - chromolithography (chromo) beginning 20th century - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4290826: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - The Wizard of Oz: drawing by Denslow, William Wallace (1856-1915) for the first edition 1900 of Frank Baum's book (1856-1919) - The magician flies in the basket of a balloon -, Denslow, William Wallace (1856-1919) / Bridgeman Images

PCT4294674: Vetheuil (formerly Seine and Oise, department of Yvelines since 1968 - Ile de France: panorama, overview of the country, route de La Roche-Guyon- postcard ND beginning 20th century sent in 1921 - French countryside - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4294690: Deauville beach in spring (April 8, 2017) - France, Lower Normandy, Calvados (14), seaside off season - Photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4294701: To the wolf! a shepherd and a shepherd chase and kill a wolf who has just taken a lamb from a herd to devour it - the shepherd's dogs bravely attack the predatory fawn - double-page engraving of La Science Populaire, 1880 - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4294703: Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969): abstract composition (1966) - Musee des beaux arts de Carcassonne -, Poliakoff, Serge (1906-69) / Bridgeman Images

PCT4294769: Bathers and sacred cows on the beach of Rameswaram (or Rameshwaram), a holy city of India at the extreme southern tip of Tamil Nadu, on the island of Pamban facing Sri Lanka. This city is famous for its Hindu temple of Ramanathaswamy, a place of pilgrimage for Vishnu and Shivaites (followers of Vishnu and Shiva) and for the Smarta Tradition. The pelerins abandon their old clothes to wake up new ones after a cleansing bath. Photo Jean-Marie Heraud - / Bridgeman Images

PCT4294808: Agence de la Poste Francaise (Poste) installed in 2017 in the town hall of a village of France - municipal postal agency - postal mail - letter sending - local public service - yellow color - Photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images