TAD1750393: the church of Saint Germain des Pres in Paris in 1162, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750431: General Antoine Henri Jomini (1779-1869) swiss soldier who served in napoleonic army, in august 1813 he betrayed Napoleon1st and seved the russians, engraving, 19th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750441: Roland Garros (1888-1918) French aviator, 1910 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750443: Tyroleans wearing traditional costume, are associated with the austrians, and demonstrate in favour of the german plebiscite in 1938, at the time of the Anschluss / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750469: Jean Racine (1639-1699), French dramatic poet, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750493: Henri Desire Landru (1869-1922) French serial killer, known as 'the modern Bluebeard'; during his trial in 1921 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750496: Italian Virginia Oldoini (1837-1899), countess of Castiglione , she was the spy of French emperor NapoleonIII, photoengraving illustrating book by Robert deMontesquiou "La Divine Comtesse" published in 1913 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750497: Swiss writer Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878-1947) c. 1940 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750526: German emperor Charles Quint (1500-1558) and French king Francois 1st (1494-1547, king in 1515-1547) visiting king's tomb in Saint DEnis basilica (France), engraving (19thcentury) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750531: The Gobelins street in Paris in 1907 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750541: The Three wise men prostrating before the Virgin Mary and Jesus Child, illumination by Jean Bourdichon from "Les Heures de Charles d'Angouleme", 1475-1500, coll. BnF-Paris (Lat 1173, f°22v) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750546: Illumination with 2 scenes: (l) Marques jousting and (r) Marques presenting the knghts extracting from a manuscript laurin c. 1466 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750548: Propaganda communist poster encouraging association of soldiers, workers and farmers, illustrating polish hymn, Warsaw, c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750563: Dr. Paul Gachet (1828-1909) was Vincent van Gogh's physician during the artist's last days in Auvers-sur-Oise, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750565: View of the buildings of Cluny abbey (Burgundy, France) built in 1088 - 1130, most of them destroyed during Revolution / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750566: Honore Daumier (1808-1879) French painter and caricaturist, engraving, 19th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750587: La Reine de la prairie Cattle Queen of Montana de AllanDwan avec Ronald Reagan et Barbara Stanwyck 1954 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750608: William Faulkner (1897-1962) american novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in1949 here c.1940 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750616: French officer General Joseph Gallieni (1849-1916) he was also politician, minister of war in 1915-1916 document colorise / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750617: View of Saint Die (Vosges, Lorraine, France) c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750626: Autograph letter from Jules Verne to his father in 1853 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750636: Experiment by Edouard Branly c. 1890 : development wirelessradio, drawing / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750642: Menilmontant area in Paris in 1900 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750661: Calas affair : Mrs Calas begging French king Louis XV to interfere against the judgement of Toulouse parliament against her husband Jean Calas (1698-1762) . He was one of the last victims of the religious intolerance of the 18th century in France, english engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750664: View of the church of Saint Ouen in Rouen / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750698: Marguerite Steinheil (born Japy, 1869-1954) here at hotel Terminus room n.37 in Paris, november 1909 (she stayed in this hotel for a night just after her acquittal) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750706: Frank Costello (1891-1973) italian immigrants member of mafia, here leaving hospital after being fired upon by unknown assailant may 3, 1957 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750712: Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) French writer, drawing by Will / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750731: Elevation of Rouen royal place, View of the town hall on july 28, 1758, plan by the architect Mathieu Lecarpentier, engraving by Leyer / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750749: French king Louis XIV with women of his court in Versailles, engraving for 1667 almanach / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750759: Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) english writer, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750766: X-1 PLane, 1st plane to get over the sound barrier on october 14, 1947 with pilot Charles E. Yeager / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750770: San Francisco (California) after earthquake in 1906 : destroyed houses / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750793: front page of French newspaper Petit journal march 20, 1921 : allieds head of state presenting notes to Germany / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750796: Adolf Hitler giving the first shovel blow for the works of the motorway in Salzburg district 1933-1936 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750800: John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) american geologist speaking with a Paiute indian during expedition in Grand Canyon 1869 / Bridgeman Images