TAD1758367: Merovingian king Clovis II (633-657) liberating St Denis abbey, illumination from "Grandes chroniques de France" c. 1460 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758383: Embroidery shop in Paris, 17th century, engraving after Berain / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758409: Peugeot factory in Sochaux (France) 1929 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758427: The duchess of Morny (1838-1896), born princess Sophie Troubetzkoi, wife of duke of Morny, photo by Disderi / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758453: Frontispiece of book “Grand Jeu de societe pratiques secretes de Marie Anne Le Normand” (astrology), Paris, 1845 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758468: Ghost of a monk in Souvigny priory (France) which it is said to be haunted / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758497: Mariya Arsenyeva, mother of russian poet Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov (1814-1841) miniature / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758524: Frontispiece of work by Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov (1814-1841) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758540: A cabocle in Brazil, bending a bow back, laid on the ground, engraving by Jean-Baptiste Debret, 1834 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758513: Alexandre Baranov (1747-1819) russian merchant, 1st governor of Russian America in 1792-1818 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758520: Perfect royalist on march 31, 1814 : while French king Louis XVIIII (king in 1814-1824) struts about, a man steal in his pockets, another one (soldier) seduce his lady, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758526: Sophie Karamzine, daughter of Nicolas Karamzine, drawing / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758529: David d'Alopeus (1769-1831) russian diplomat, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758551: Charruas indians, Brazil, 19th century, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758581: Nicolas de L'Hospital (1581-1644) duke of Vitry, he took part in conjuration against Concino Concini, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758619: In Dardanelles in 1915, daily life on a French battleship : here cookers preparing soup, photo by Branger / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758708: protection against bombing by zeppelins of monuments with earth bags in London 1st world war, photo by Branger / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758720: French dirigible Adjudant Vincenot in Toul (Lorraine), 1st world war / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758789: Experience of Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) german physician, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758573: surrender of French general Rene Reille (1835 - 1898) at Sedan battle on september 1st, 1870, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758629: uprising of important feudal landowners against French king Louis XI, 1465 : members of the coalition taking the oath, illumination from "Chroniques du roi Louis XI", c. 1502 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758640: Trial of Reynier, French at stock exchange, satirical drawing, 1813 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758649: French king Louis XVIII with members of the royal familly june 1814 : French king Louis XVIII Charles Philippe count of Artois duke of Angouleme Marie Therese Charlotte duchess of Angouleme Charles Ferdinand duke of Berry duke of Orleans Joseph Bourbon prince of Conde Louis of Bourbon duke of Bourbon Alexandre 1st emperor of Russia Francois II emperor of Austria Frederic Guillaume III king of Prussia General Blucher George prince of Wales Lord Welington king of Holland and Ferdinand VII king of Spain / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758661: New pact of French king Louis XVI with French people on june 20, 1792, satirical engraving, 18th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758742: masked ball in Hall of mirrors in Versailles castle for wedding of Dauphin of France Louis and spanish infant Marie-Therese february 23, 1745 , engraving by Cochin / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758766: Signature of the treaty of Westphalia in Munster by Louis XIV may 1648, which ends the Thirty Years' war, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758615: Aerea of "Chemin des Dames" in Picardy, France : near Craonne where fights took place in 1917 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758780: Dancing around a poll in the illuminated ball room at Versailles, at a ball held in 1763, engraving after Rene Michel Slodtz / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758831: Harbour of Dieppe, France, painting by Othon Friesz, 1930 (oil on canvas), Friesz, Achille Emile Othon (1879-1949) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758719: In Verdun area, in trenches, chasseurs with machine gun against german planes, 1st world war, photo by Branger / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758776: Russian cartoon about the nose of French emperor Napoleon 1st, engraving in 1812 at the time of the campaign of Russia / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758818: baron Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835) French anatomist and military surgeon, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758835: View of Versailles castle, engraving by Skelton after Adam Frans van der Meulen, 1669 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758883: Nicolo Piccini (1728-1800) italian composer, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758894: Prince of Wales future king George IV of England and his wife Caroline of Brunswick, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758902: Boarding of a bullock on a ship of French navy, ww1 / Bridgeman Images