PCT4260685: Revolt du Midi viticole, Montpellier demonstration, 9 June 1907: depart of the delegation of Cuxac d'Aude. There are many women among the “gueux”. One of them waved the flag of the village. Three days later, the entire region cut the bridges with the French central power, closing town halls and calling for a tax strike. On June 20, Clémenceau had the crowd shot at Narbonne. This view was taken by Narcotic photographer Sallis, who made numerous photographs of the events of 1907. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4260874: Detail of an engraving by Grandville, extracted from the book Private and Public Life of Animals (Les animaux ints par eux memes), edition Hetzel 1867 - Hippotamus worldly at a table raising his glass and carrying a toast., Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard) (1803-47) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4261026: Child-dog produced by zoophilia: engraving of the book of Ambroise Pare: Monsters and Wonders (1573) - Excerpts from the text: “There are monsters that are born half of the figure of beets and the other human [...] that are produced by sodomites and atheists, who join and overflow against nature with the beets, and from it several monsters are born. hideous and greatly shameful to see and talk about it. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4261014: Engraving of the book of Ambroise Pare: Monsters and Prodiges (1573) - Text: “” This present monster depicted here was found in an egg with the face and face of a man, all the hair of small snakes all alive, and the beard is fashionable and in the way of three snakes coming out of the chin: and was found on the fifteenth day of March last passed 1569 with a lawyer named Baucheron, in Authun in Burgundy, by a chambriere who broke eggs to put them in butter, between which he was: who was broken by her, saw the said monster come out, having human face, hair and beard of snakes, of which she was wonderfully frightened.” / Bridgeman Images
PCT4261857: 2 portraits of a soldier of the war 1914-1918, made from the same photograph: a glorious portrait of this Languedoc soldier of the 96th infantry regiment, made in studio, embellished and coloured by photographer Reynes de Montpellier (Herault - 34); then a mourning card, made by a member of his family after that soldier was killed in combat., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4270779: La Bourree d'Auvergne: two couples of villagers in traditional costumes dance in their house, in front of the fireplace. A musician playing bagpipes (cabrette, musette) settled on a table next to a bottle of wine and a glass. This folkloric scene is actually completely reconstructed in a studio for the photographer: at the top of the picture, the piece is a painted background, held by a stem! Postcard around 1930., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4272156: Portrait of the character of Quaresmeprenant (Careme - face of Careme - skinny as a day without bread), character of the Fourth Book of Rabelais. Illustration of Robida (1848-1926) for a book from the work of Rabelais, Librairie Armand Colin beginning 20th century., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4272027: Narbonne. Women doing laundry in the Robine Canal. In the background, the Gilles-Aycelin keep (Gilles Aycelin) and the Cathedrale Saint-Just (Saint Just). Watercolour by Joseph Pennell illustrating Henry James's book “A little tour in France””, edition Heinemann 1900., Pennell, Joseph (1858-1926) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4272077: Postcard of love, sent on January 13, 1919 from Taranto (port of southern Italy) by Basil, a young Marseille sailor, to his fiancee Baptistine: “Dear little aimee, we will leave in an hour, before leaving I write you these two words in speed. I'm still healthy. Nothing yet. A thousand beaks on your cherished eyes. Your darling who loves you.” The legend of this Revenge 330 card says: “” On the edge of the waves, I love you (sic), you love me, let us love us: love gives us an appointment! “” In an open medallion on the facade of a beachfront house, a young sailor has pompom offers his heart to his beautiful against the background of the setting sun., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images