ITR4755324: Old lock on the Briare Canal. Former burner mill (Henri IV). Photography 2003 / Bridgeman Images

ITR4755570: The lock of the Ouche valley along the Burgundy Canal, Cote d'Or, France. Photography 2002 / Bridgeman Images

ITR4755606: The lift of the Fontinettes a Arques on the Canals of the North, France. / Bridgeman Images

ITR4755813: The Burgundy Canal. Photography 2003 / Bridgeman Images

ITR4756080: Le Canal de Bourgogne, France. Photography 2003 / Bridgeman Images

ITR4756209: Le canal du Midi - Relais de Pigasse. At 60 years old, under Louis XIV, engineer Pierre Paul Riquet embarks on an extraordinary adventure, connecting the Garonne to the Mediterranean with the technical and topographical means of the 18th century. The Midi Canal will take 15 years of work to dig and feed a 240 km long artificial stream. Photography 2005 / Bridgeman Images

ITR4756233: Le Pont Canal de Briare, Loiret, Centre. Photography 2000 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4756931: Plastic intervention: Installation of Dan Graham, 2007, Porte de Versailles in Paris 75015.Photography 10/02/07 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4756609: Gare de Lyon, Paris 75012. Architecture by Marius Toudoire (1852-1922), 1900. Photography 03/05/02 / Bridgeman Images

ITR4755089: The Cercay dam on the Burgundy Canal, Cote d'Or, France. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4756666: Gare de Lyon, Paris 75012. Architecture by Marius Toudoire (1852-1922), 1900. Photography 03/05/02 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4757550: France, Centre, Loir-et-Cher (41), Blois: Baroque Church of St. Vincent, Jesuite style, 1910 - photo Papeghin / Bridgeman Images

GIA4756382: The Yatagan, Turkish sword that gave its shape to bayonets. 19th century., Turkish School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

LUX4757975: France, Brittany, Ille-et-Vilaine (35), Saint-Servan: Saint-Malo ferry arrives at the Tour de Solidor and passengers descend from the vane steamboat, 1885 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4757203: Syrian Arab Republic, Aleppo: Photo of a group of actor and actress disguises as street singer masks, 1925, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

LUX4758667: France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire (37), Vernou: tuffeau porch of a troglodyte house, 1900 - Photo Papeghin / Bridgeman Images

LUX4758712: France, Pays de la Loire, Maine-et-Loire (49), Saumur: le Chateau, 1920 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4757515: France: old bourgeois house, on a hill overlooking the railway, 1920 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4759063: France, Rhone-Alpes, Haute-Savoie (74), Saint-Cergues: a group of inhabitants in traditional clothes posing with cows, 1900 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4759126: France, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Var (83), Toulon: in the harbor of Toulon, a steamer with two chiminees flying English flag, 1895 - boats: Albert - Victoria / Bridgeman Images

LUX4758066: France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire (37), Ballan Mire (Ballan-Mire): a woman and her 4 children pose in front of a decor painted in the studio Mauxion, 1900 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4757996: France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire (37), Ballan Mire (Ballan-Mire): wedding photo in a park, 1900 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4758053: France, Centre, Loiret (45), Orleans: forging workshop with outside a woman and her baby and a little girl and her doll, 1900 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4756891: France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire (37), Tours: Le marche place des Halles, 1895 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4758254: France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire (37), Ballan Mire (Ballan-Mire): group photo, a family composed of 4 women and a man reads the newspaper in their garden, 1900 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4757844: France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire (37), Cormery: Cormery, bridge over the Indre with fishermen and children, 1910 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4758003: France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire (37), Ballan Mire (Ballan-Mire): hospitality, military hospital, war wounded pose with their bequilles and decorations, 1917 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4758123: France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire (37), Ballan-Mire: hospital, military hospital, dormitory. In a room, on a table wicker objects made by soldiers, 1917 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4759545: France: brocante stand in a village in front of a caravan truck, 1925 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4755304: France, Lower Normandy (Lower Normandy), Calvados (14): Portrait of Alexandre Robert Douesnel-Dubosq (Douesnel Dubosq) (1798-1877), depute of Calvados / Bridgeman Images

LUX4755385: Senegal, Dakar: An African family taken by Noal, 1860 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4755394: France, Centre, Indre (36): Portrait of Francois Charles Delavau (1799-1876), Depute of the Indre / Bridgeman Images

LUX4755469: France, Ile-de-France (Ile-de-France), Val d'Oise (95): Portrait of Aime Stanislas Darblay (1794-1878), depute of Seine-et-Oise (Seine and Oise) / Bridgeman Images

LUX4755547: France, Pays de la Loire, Loire-Atlantique (44), Saint-Nazaire: A sailor's family poses in front of a peniche and a steamboat, 1880 - Compagnie generale transatlantique, steamboat Saint Philippe, peniche daisy / Bridgeman Images

LUX4755775: France, Pays de la Loire, Sarthe (72), La Suze sur Sarthe (La Suze-sur-Sarthe): boat ride on the Sarthe under the bridge of the Suze, 1885 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4755940: France, Lower Normandy, Calvados (14), Bayeux: The Cathedrale of Bayeux l'apse, 1880 / Bridgeman Images