PCT4294224: The interior of the lighthouse of Eckmuhl, on the tip of Saint-Pierre, at Penmarc'h (Finistere) near Quimper, 64 metres high and at the time the powerful lighthouse of the world, inaugurates on 17 October 1897) - the spiral staircase seen from the ground floor (313 steps) - postcard A. Dantan, beginning of the 20th century - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4294346: Singing, the wings deployed, the gaul rooster (French rooster, bronze sculpture) overcoming the monument to the dead of Villeneuve-Minervois (Aude, Occitanie) - patriotism, national republican symbol, national identity, French nation - photo Patrice Cartier -, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4294778: Sadhu shivate a Rameswaram (or Rameshwaram), a holy city of India at the extreme southern tip of Tamil Nadu, on the island of Pamban facing Sri Lanka. This city is famous for its Hindu temple of Ramanathaswamy, a place of pilgrimage for Vishnu and Shivates (followers of Vishnu and Shiva) and for the Smarta Tradition. The pelerins abandon their old clothes to wake up new ones after a cleansing bath. Photo Jean-Marie Heraud -, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4294859: Toulouse, pink city (31 - Haute-Garonne - Midi-Pyrenees, Occitanie) - The Tower of Pierre de Serta (1533), remains of a beautiful house from the late Middle Ages with aesthetic equipment, overlooks Rue des Changes and rue Saint-Rome - brick facade and half-timbering (half-timbering) - Photo Patrice Cartier 2017 - see also GUT7544 -, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293812: Carnival (Tuesday-gras, mid-careme, mid-careme) in 1924 in Boulogne-sur-Mer (Boulogne sur mer) - Group of young girls deguisees in pierrots and sailors - photography realized in studio by Albert Laurent, 6rue du Camp-de-Droit in Boulogne - photo, photographer, party, masquerade, pierrot - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293778: Manuel Valls, former Minister of the Interior and former Prime Minister, candidate for the President of the French Republic 2017, in a meeting in Villemoustaussou, near Carcassonne (11, Aude) on 12/12/2016 - candidate presidential election - primary of the left - Socialist Party - Photo Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4294844: Toulouse (31, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie): facade and Place du Capitole - Town Hall, City Hall - poster (banner) urging the population to sign a petition calling for the opening of a high speed train line linking the pink city to Paris in 3 hours - Photo Patrice Cartier, April 2017 -, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4294665: Vetheuil (formerly Seine and Oise, department of the Yvelines since 1968 - Ile de France: loop of the Seine and the Cotes, the island - postcard beginning 20th century (photo A. Bertran) - alignment of boots (sheaves) recovered in a field, harvest, French countryside, agriculture - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4295245: Poaching - dessert plate illustrated at the beginning of the 20th century: hunting poachers no 12 - pursued by two gendarmes (hunting guard, hunting guard), the poachers run away with the rabbit (hare) they have just killed with a stick. Faience de Gien (Geoffroy and Cie faiencerie) - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4294847: Toulouse (31, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie): facade and Place du Capitole - Town Hall, City Hall - poster (banner) urging the population to sign a petition calling for the opening of a high speed train line linking the pink city to Paris in 3 hours - Photo Patrice Cartier, April 2017 -, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4295505: Cerdagne electric railway line: construction of the Gisclard bridge (or bridge of La Cassagne), crossing the Tet valley near Mont-Louis and Fontpedrouse - workers in the wires - Roussillon, Pays Catalan, Pyrenees-Orientales (Pyrenees Orientales) - this line opened in 1910, has been inscribed by UNESCO since 2002 on the indicative list of the World Heritage as “” Cerdagne Railway””. Operated by SNCF, it forms the 669 000 line of the national railway network - This cable bridge was designed by Genie Commander Albert Gisclard. A device of his invention completely avoids oscillations and allows the train to pass safely. It is the only railway suspension bridge still in operation in France. Tragic irony of fate, Commander Gisclard lost his life in a derailment of the train during a test trip near the bridge in 1909 - phototyping Labouche, early 20th century - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291841: Mystere of Rennes le Chateau (Rennes-le-Chateau - Aude, Languedoc - Roussillon, Occitanie, Pays cathare, France) - Reconstruction of an interior scene with wax models showing Abbe Sauniere (Francois Beranger Sauniere, 1852-1917) reading in his kitchen with his servant Marie Denarnaud - Photo Patrice Cartier -, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4292783: Exploitation of the cement of the Porte de France (Porte-de-France, near Grenoble, Isere, Dauphine) at the end of the 19th century: overview of the self-propelled air cable and wagons used to transport cement stone - engraving extracted from “La Nature”, between 1896 and 1900 - cement quarry, cement factory, telepherical - / Bridgeman Images