PCT4271632: Before the last page of Charles Dickens's “” Christmas Song” (Christmas Tales - A Christmas Carol), in a short version, early 20th century, illustration by G.W. Irwin. “” Scrooge did not only what he had promised, but much more. When Tiny Tim, who did not die, Scrooge was his second father.” / Bridgeman Images
PCT4271725: Icelandic fisherman, novel by Pierre Loti. “” Nouvelle Collection Illustree”, Calmann-Levy, 1924 edition. Illustration by Henri Edmond Rudaux (1865-1927) A party is preparing in Paimpol. Paimpolais and Paimpolais have gone out to the main square where the ball will take place. A stage was set up for musicians, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4271746: Icelandic fisherman, novel by Pierre Loti. “” Nouvelle Collection Illustree”, Calmann-Levy, 1924 edition. Illustration by Henri Edmond Rudaux (1865-1927). Evocation of the two main metiers of the sea: fisherman (Newfoundland, Newfoundland) and marine (national navy). Between the two, a reminder of the land of Brittany: chapel and cemetery..., Cartier, Patrice / 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
PCT4272413: Tarascon, the Tarasque. Dragon who, according to tradition, ravaged the banks of the Rhone and was tame by Saint Martha. Here is the monster as it appears in the coat of arms and archives of the city and as history (the legende) represents it. Postcard beginning 20th century., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4272430: Ulysses and his companions are buried in the hands of the Cyclops Polypheme who holds them in his cave. They're gonna make him run away, after Ulysses scratched his eye with a stake. The frieze shows all this sequence, taken from the Odyssee of Homere, with the escape of Ulysses and his companions, clinging to the fleece of the beliers of the Cyclops. Original gouache by Marie Joly 2010. Private collection, rights artist OK., Joly, Marie (20th century) / 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
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
PCT4271674: Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Two chromolithographs (chromos) advertising for Liebig meat extract, part of a series of six, early 20th century, after the story imagined by Daniel Defoe (De Foe). Robinson in front of his house, with his friends tamed animals: dog, goat, cats, parrot. He teases his clothes in bete skin and grows wheat. Robinson saves a savage from cannibals and calls him Friday. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4271933: But where are these Alsatian villagers running into the main street at the beginning of the 20th century? Buy an umbrella from the peddler who has just settled in its usual location in the center of the village! Photos on glass plate., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4271945: Fragment of text with illustration from the Bibliotheque edition Rose Illustree Hachette beginning 20th century of the novel by Daniel Defoe (De Foe) Robinson Crusoe. This adaptation of the text (abbrege for the use of children) differs significantly from the same passage in Petrus Borel's translation in 1836: “After eating, I tried to walk; but I found myself so weakened that I could barely carry my musket - for I never went out without him.” As I was there, it came to mind these thoughts: What is the land and the sea, of which I have seen so many regions? where did it come from? what am i myself? what are all creatures, wild or police? human or raw? where do we get from? Surely we were all made by some secret power, which formed the earth and the ocean, the air and the heavens; but what is it?” / Bridgeman Images
PCT4271967: American painter and illustrator Joseph Pennell (1860-1926) tricycle France and Italy with his wife Elisabeth Robins Pennell (1855-1936) at the end of the 19th century. This couple of artists brought back from these travels as a curious crew the material of many books. The best known is “An italian pilgrimage” (Italy a velocipede), published in 1887, a classic of travel literature. In his works, Joseph Pennell often drew himself with his wife, as he published in “The adventures of an illustrator”, Little Brown 1925., Pennell, Joseph (1858-1926) / 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