ID: ELD4906699

Portrait of the Legendary Queen of Babylon Semiramis, wife of King Ninus, succeeding him to the throne of Assyria. 19th century (engraving)

ID: ELD4906703

Representation of Godefroy de Bouillon (1058-1100) fighting a bear in a forest of Cilicia, 1097. 19th century (engraving)

ID: UTD4906896

Portrait de Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouque dit La Motte-Fouque (1777-1843) ecrivain romantique allemand. Eaux forte vers 1820

ID: JEB4906960

Harpsichord. Interior, bird detail. After restoration. Work by Jean Denis II (17th century), 1648. Dim: 260x72,1cm. Musee de l'hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun (Enter the collections in 1911. M.H. class in 1986). Mandatory mention

ID: ICA4907029

L'Assiette au Beurre, number 295, Satirique en couleurs, 1906_11_24: Armee, Royalism - Officer (lithograph)

Malteste, Louis (1862-1928)

ID: NWI4907101

Shrine of the Stone Lions, a prehistoric Native American sculpture of two mountain lions, Bandelier Wilderness, New Mexico.

ID: NWI4907158

Ruins of Pecos Pueblo, burned during the 17th-century Pueblo Revolt, New Mexico.

ID: ELD4907209

Jean de Poitiers, Lord of Saint Vallier (ca. 1475-1539), captain of the guards of Charles de Bourbon (1489-1537) condemned to death because of his involvement in a plot against the king Francis I of France in 1524. 19th century (engraving)

ID: PCT4271999

Wallet of 20 real photos published at the Liberation de Paris (19 to 26 August 1944). In the centre: general (then marechal) Philippe Leclerc of Hauteclocque (1902-1947). Arrest of German prisoners by the FFI, reception of American soldiers, General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) in front of the grave of the unknown soldier.

Cartier, Patrice

ID: PCT4272019

Robinson Crusoe: German edition 1910 (print)

Cartier, Patrice

ID: PCT4272046

Charlemagne is the crown Emperor of the West by Pope Leon III on Christmas Day of the year 800. Engraving by Alphonse Cabasson (1814-1884).

Cartier, Patrice

ID: PCT4272149

The army of Quaresmeprenant. Soldiers are represented as fish, some of which have only the aretes, by reference to Careme's lean (young) meal. Illustration by Albert Robida (1848-1926) for an episode of the Fourth Livre by Francois Rabelais - Librairie Armand Colin debut 20th century.

Robida, Albert (1848-1926)

ID: PCT4272195

During the picrocholine wars (against Picrochole), Gant Gargantua received a flock of cannonballs that he drove from his hair with his comb. Illustration by Albert Robida (1848-1926) for an episode based on the work of Francois Rabelais - Librairie Armand Colin debut 20th century.

Robida, Albert (1848-1926)

ID: PCT4272398

Illustration by Gustave Dore for a tale by Charles Perrault: Sleeping Beauty. The princess is gonna sting herself at the cattail of an old woman running away in the spindle.

Dore, Gustave (1832-83)

ID: PCT4272445

Mythology. Centaur (centhaur) Nessus (Nessos) abducting Dejanire, wife of Hercules. Original gouache by Marie Joly. Private collection, rights artist OK.

Joly, Marie (20th century)

ID: PCT4272576

Claim for Planter's Chocolate, early 20th century. Cocoa plantation. The colonial owner (landlord) and the indigenous black worker.

ID: PCT4272621

A dwarf named Fortune, like garlands, participates in a wedding meal. Frontispice of the novel “La Fortune du Poor” by Francois Mussat, edition Mame 1878.

ID: PCT4272644

Saint Venance Fortunat (eveque of Poitiers 530-609) writing the life of Saint Radegonde (519-587), Saint Radegonde de Poitiers (Queen of the Francs, fourth wife of King Clotaire I). Undated lithograph by R. Engelmann (ca. 1930) after an illumination of the 11th century.

Cartier, Patrice

ID: PCT4272666

General reconciliation in the throne room of the King of Spain. Final stage of the theatre piece “L'enfance du Cid” by Gillen de Castro (Guillem de Castro), inspired by Pierre Corneille for his play Le Cid. Publication on a serial paper in the “Journal pour tous”” April 1864.

ID: PCT4272708

Portrait of Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (Malte Brun, 1816-1889), French geographer and cartographer, author of numerous works, including “La France Illustree” (several editions between 1853 and 1884), whose engraving by Clerget adorns the frontispiece.

Cartier, Patrice

ID: PCT4272771

Reclamation for Margarine Astra, November 1953.

ID: PCT4272785

The defroques. “There's still something to make me a skirt,” said the woman from the old cure, cutting the bottom of her cassock with a chisel. Cartoon by Jules Grandjouan (1875-1968), cover of “” L'Assiette au beurre””, n°292, November 3, 1906

Grandjouan, Jules (1875-1968)

ID: PCT4272874

A book that underwent censorship, a forbidden one: Atala Rene (Atala-Rene), the last Abencerage. News by Francois Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848).

Cartier, Patrice

ID: PCT4273016

Moorish on the banks of the wadi, El Kantara (Algeria). Anonymous colonial postcard beginning 20th century. Nude - odalisque - indigenous naked women - exotic

Unknown photographer, (20th century)

ID: PCT4273153

Let's play with words. Game, vocabulary, letters, alphabet. Children roll O's like wheels or hoops - Illustration by Ray Lambert (Raylambert, Raymond Gabriel Lambert 1889 - 1967) for a 50's (1950) school book.

Cartier, Patrice

ID: PCT4273164

Let's play with words. Game, vocabulary, alphabet. Elves carrying letters. Illustration by Ray Lambert (Raylambert, Raymond Gabriel Lambert 1889 - 1967) for a school book of the years 50 (1950).

Cartier, Patrice

ID: PCT4273220

Visit of the pink marble quarries of Caunes-Minervois (Caunes Minervois) (Aude, Languedoc). Photography mid-20th century.

Unknown photographer, (20th century)

ID: PCT4273325

Gothic dwelling - Middle Ages (Middle Ages). Half-timbered house. Advertising chromolithography (claim) of Pernot cookies, early 20th century.

ID: PCT4273337

French Revolution: Capture of the Bastille, July 14, 1789. Chromolithography Gibert-Clarey (Tours) late 18th - early 20th century. Good point distributes in schools.

ID: PCT4273394

Entertainment and festivities in the Middle Ages (Middle Ages): great knighthood tournament in Rome (Italy) for the coronation of an emperor. Advertising chromolithography (chromo - claim) of Liebig meat extract, late 19th, early 20th century.

ID: PCT4273422

Mythology Ancient Greece: Orphee (Orpheus) with its lyre facing the elements of the chain during the expedition of the Argonauts - Ship - Tempete. Advertising chromolithography (chromo - claim) of Liebig meat extract, early 20th century.

ID: 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)

ID: PCT4273768

Girl's alphabet. Cover of an abecedary late 19th - early 20th century.

Cartier, Patrice

ID: PCT4273877

Allegorical portrait of his eminence Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli elected pope on March 2, 1939 as Pius XII - In the Almanach of Pelerin of 1940

Unknown Artist, (20th century)

ID: 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.

ID: PCT4273992

Canal du Midi : large basin and port in Cacassonne. Sailing boats docked near a lock. Postcard 1905