TAD1749331: French soldier at the time of the storming of Caen, Normandy, by kingEdward of England in 1346, illustration from "Recueil de Gaignieres" after Froissart / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748694: garden of the mount of the Olive Trees in Jerusalem, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748442: Russian army : Cossack of czar NicholasII in 1894-1917 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1746693: frontispiece of The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu (1748) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1745339: Evrard de Conty and chess players, illumination by Robinet Testard for book "Echecs amoureux" by Evrard de Conty, c. 1496-1498 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1745770: Stall selling lemonade in the street in Vienna c. 1830, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1746152: Victoria roads in Cameroon around 1900, illustration by Hellgrave / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749573: uniforms of the noncommissioned officers of the japanese army in the 30's 40's / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749271: Reception of Napoleon Bonaparte in the freemasonry , c. 1798-1799 (?, date uncertain) , engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1746861: engraving by Alfred and Tomy Johannot for Guy Mannering book by Walter Scott (1815) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749805: the cathedral of Metz, in East of France, c.1810-1830, Lithography by Engelmann / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749881: disillusioned French soldiers : "we will be the new poor: we will only win the victory" , drawing by Paul Iribe publish in satirical newspaper "La Baionnette" in 1915-1916 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748449: entry in Nantes of Francois Athanase baron Charette de la Contrie, one of the leaders of the vendean revolt, before the signature the peace of La Jaunaie (february 15, 1795), by which the government granted an amnesty and freedom of worship to the Vendeans, at the time of the wars of the Vendee, France / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747615: Charity nuns taking care of the orphans late 17th century , engraving by Nataire / Bridgeman Images

TAD1745099: Crowd welcoming the landing of Pilatre de Rozier's hot-air balloon late 18th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749201: Francoise de Clermont-Tallart (1534?-?) duchess of Uzes, maried in 1568 to Jacques de Crussol Duke of Uzes (1540-1586), mother of Emmanuel de Crussol, drawing in 1594 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1745126: Farnese palace in Rome, Italy (built in 16th century), engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748742: music bar on the Champ Elysees avenue in Paris in 1855, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748136: French officer Jacques Francois Menou (1750-1810), chief general of the napoleonic army in Egypt, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749988: the Place des Victoires (Victories Square) in Paris, engraving by N. Guerard in march 1686 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748607: Samuel laying in the Temple of the Lord, manuscript / Bridgeman Images

TAD1745928: Jeanne de Saint Remi de Vallois (top) countess of La Motte Valois, daughter of an illegitime son of King HenriII, here in 1785 meeting for the first time Nicole Legay who will take the title of baroness of Oliva to gain admittance to parisian salons. her mission consisted in being taken for queen MarieAntoinette by cardinal prince deRohan and convince him to buy the necklace diamond of the Parisian jewellers Bohmer and Bassenge, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1745136: Turkish automaton playing chess described by Jean Eugene Robert Houdin in 1858, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1746989: View of the big square and the theatre in Saint Petersburg 19th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1746056: Dunkirk, France, 17th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1745238: View of Algiers harbour july 3, 1830, start of the conquest of Algeria by France, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1745034: French journalists in november 1872, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747756: Pere Lachaise chapel in the cemetery in Paris late 18th century, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747813: woman at her dressing table , engraving by Moreau the younger , 18th century (aristocrats' daily life under LouisXV) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747359: german diplomat he was councellor to the foreign affairs minister and had major influence over german european politics / Bridgeman Images

TAD1745838: american typewriter, drawing by Perot 19th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747497: map of several medieval fortified castles in Normandy, engraving after drawings by Eugene Viollet le Duc 19th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747653: Peter 1st the Great (1672-1725) czar of Russia in 1682-1725, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1745508: Chatelet square in Paris c. 1840, engraving after Gibel / Bridgeman Images

TAD1745741: La Paimpolaise, french song, c.1900 (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747224: King of France Louis XIV (1638-1715, king from 1643 to 1715) with his ministers Jean-Baptiste Colbert and Francois Louvois, engraving by Leclerc / Bridgeman Images