ELD4870064: Day of the Barricades: the regente Catherine de Medicis (1519-1589) meeting Duke Henry I of Guise (1549-1588) head of the Holy League, 12/05/1588” (Henry I, Duke of Guise meets catherine de Medici on the day of the barricades, to challenge the authority of king Henry III, May 1588) Engraving from “” Les Rues-de-Paris” Pierre Zaccone 1859 Private Collection / Bridgeman Images
ELD4870878: Economic system: the speculative bubble at the time of the Law system, the agiotors of Rue Quincampoix - Under Louis XV, some brokers set up on Rue Quincampoix, under the name of bankers, to trade public papers and to make prices play up or down for their profits, around 1720 (View of the rue Quincampoix with the speculators at the time of the system of John Law, Scottish economist, developed between 1716 and 1720 in Paris) Engraving from “Les Rues-de-Paris” by Pierre Zaccone, 1859 Collection privee / Bridgeman Images
NWI4873509: Second English Revolution (Glorious Revolution of England): William III, Prince of Orange (1650-1702) (William III of England) leading the Dutch army at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland in 1690. William of Orange, later King William III of England, leading the Dutch army in England's Glorious Revolution. Hand-colored engraving / Bridgeman Images