PCT4262016: Portrait draws Marcelin (Marcellin) Albert, instigator of the revolt of the winemakers of the Midi in 1907. The one whom the winemakers called the apostle or the redeemer is represented as a religious idol, a cross loaded with grapes in his hand and the headdress of an aureole. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4262041: Tall sailboats docked in the port of Marseille, dominates by Notre Dame de la Garde (Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde), also called the “” Bonne Mère” (batie between 1853 and 1874 in the Romano-Byzantine style) around 1900 - cliche stereo anonymous on glass plate, 2 times 4x4,5 cm. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4259304: Engraving of Gaston Tissandier's book “The wonders of photography”” (1873) - The experience of Professor Charles (circa 1780): using the principle of the dark chamber (camera obscura), Charles projects the face of one of his students, heavily illuminated by a ray of sun, on white paper soaked in silver chloride. Under the action of light, the exposed part darkens, cutting out the silhouette of the face, whose shadow has allowed the papuer to remain white. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4259448: the front page of the newspaper “” Le cri de Toulouse””, August 9, 1919: Glory to our victorious troops. Toulouse makes 17th body hairy an unforgettable welcome. Drawing by Laborde showing the Toulouse population celebrating the return of the soldiers, whose regiments had left the pink city five years earlier, August 6, 1914. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4259539: War of 1914 - 1918 - Inedit sketch by audois cartoonist Pierre Dantoine (1884-1955), showing 2 French soldiers wearing masks (gas mask) in a trench during a wave of gas attack. Legend in Languedoc patois: “” Aco reglario le mildeou” (That would settle the mildew!) - Reference to chemical treatments used to combat diseases of the vine. Private collection. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4259550: Coloured glass plate used for the projections of a magical lantern, featuring two scenes from the history of Petro Jacques: “Petro Jacques falls from the chimney and makes the fear of society”” then “Petro Jacques is rescued by society and, from there, he sets up a small business””. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4259857: engraving (and cover illustration), by Riou, of the book “” Journey to the Ruins of Golconde et à la Cité des morts”” by Louis Jacolliot, editions E. Dentu 1879. Explorers are welcomed, in the heart of an Indian forest, by nomadic members of the Kahdu-Courubarou caste. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4260086: Illustration of the book “” Le sphinx des glace”” by Jules Verne, published in 1897 in the collection Hetzel/Voyages extraordinaire. Drawing by George Roux: the goëlette l'Halbrane, removed from the sea by the tipping of an iceberg, slides along the ice mountain and breaks. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4258233: Engraving of the book by Jules Verne “” Twenty thousand lieues sous les mers”” (Twenty-thousand - 20,000 - 20000), 1870 - Hetzel editions/Extraordinary Voyages. Meeting with giant squid: one of the octopus, although struck with an axe by Captain Nemo and harpooner Ned Land, grabs one of the sailors of the Nautilus's crew in a tentacle / Bridgeman Images
PCT4258417: The singer Emma Calvé (1858 - 1942), photographed with a tambourine by Reutlinger. The famous lyrical singer. frequented the esoteric circles, she is mentioned among the relations of Abbé Béranger Saunière, priest of Rennes le Château, and thus linked to the mysterious treasure that would be buried in this Audois village. / Bridgeman Images