PCT4292909: The tragedy of the aerostation on May 8, 1824: the misfortune Thomas Harris (d. 1824), an English naval officer, jumps into the void out of the balloon's naccelle to stop the fall of the aerostat and save his companion - engraving from Louis Figuier's “Wonders of Science”, 1868 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293220: Sylans lake and glaciers near Nantua (Ain) - The glacier activity began in 1865. The ice was stored in a wooden cabin. Beginning in 1890 industrialization began by the glacier society of Paris with the construction of hard-wall buildings. The appearance of artificial ice, as well as the warming of the climate, making the collection of ice less important and then the outbreak of the First World War, caused the declination of exploitation which ceased definitively during the winter of 1916-1917 - postcard beginning 20th century, photograph of F. Vialatte, Oyonnax - see also GUT8419 and GUT8420 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4292705: Naples, Italy (Napoli, Italia): chiostro maiolicato, monastero di Santa Chiara - majolic cloitre (of faience) of the monastery of Santa Chiara, mid-18th century (architect Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, 1678-1745) - majolic with mythological scenes, landscape and polychrome maritime, due to ceramists Donato and Giato Massa - Photo Patrice Cartier -, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291881: Tour de France cyclist 2016: passage of the peloton of runners in the vineyards of Minervois in front of the village of Caunes-Minervois - Languedoc Midi-Pyrenees, Occitanie - cycling, sport, bike - photo Patrice Cartier - see Tour de France in 1936 (80 years ago): GUT4440 a 4442 -, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4292973: Reclaim (advertisement) for the electric car Electromotion, manufactured at the beginning of the 20th century in Paris (avenue Montaigne, Champs-Elysees) - this advertising postcard sent in 1902 shows a car with an electric motor passing another car with a thermal motor, whose passengers are ashixies by the smoke degagee by the combustion of fuel. In the foreground, a car carcass burned by a fire in the fuel tank - air pollution, ozone layer, greenhouse effect, fossil energy and “clean”, ecology - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293362: The pines of Rome and part of the arches of the section of the Acqua Claudia called aqueduct of Neron in the park of Mount Palatine (Monte Palatino, Roma, Italia) - in the background, the dome of the Basilica San Giovani e Paolo - Italy, tree, pine - Photo Patrice Cartier -, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293327: Lebanon: view of the site of Byblos (Goubla, Jebal, Gebal, Jbeil) - in the foreground, the stands of the Roman theatre (218 AD), in the background: Roman colonnade 3rd century and castle of the Croises, built in the 12th century on Phenician and Roman foundations, using the stones of ancient ruins -, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4292682: Naples, Italy (Napoli, Italia): chiostro maiolicato, monastero di Santa Chiara - majolic cloister (of faience) of the monastery of Santa Chiara, mid-18th century - majolic decorees of mythological scenes, countryside and polychrome maritime scenes, due to the ceramists Donato and Giuseppe Massa - Neapolitan landscape - Photo Patrice Cartier, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293783: 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
LSE4317311: Angels carrying the Holy Shroud - Painting from the workshop of Frere Carlos (Flemish painter active between 1517-1544), oil on wood, circa 1520-1530 (Angels with the Saint Face, by the workshop of Friar Carlos, oil on panel, circa 1520-1530) - Musee d'Evora (Portugal), Carlos, Taborda Vlame Frey, (fl.1517-40) / Bridgeman Images