ID: GIA4781076

The Eagle and the Owl. Fables by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95). Illustration by François Chauveau (1613-1676). Edition of 1728.

Chauveau, Francois (1613-76)

ID: GIA4781145

The chicken with golden eggs. Fables by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95). Illustration by François Chauveau (1613-1676). Edition of 1728.

Chauveau, Francois (1613-76)

ID: LUX4781192

Algeria, Ain zeft: visit of an Algerian family with donkeys, 1904

ID: LUX4781205

Algeria, Ain zeft: a European woman, Mrs Sotoberg has a donkey in the Cheleff plain, 1906

ID: LUX4781280

France, Poitou-Charentes, Charente-Maritime (17), La Rochelle: the port, shipyard at the foot of the prison tower, 1900

ID: GIA4781320

Le gardenier et son seigneur.Fables by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95). Illustration by François Chauveau (1613-1676). Edition of 1728.

Chauveau, Francois (1613-76)

ID: LUX4781333

Algeria, Ain zeft: base of a derrick with workers and technicians watching the oil sink, 1904

ID: LUX4781403

Spain, Basque Country, San Sebastian (San Sebastian): royal bath cabin of Alfonso XIII on the Concha, 1890

ID: LUX4781454

Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam: a narrow canal crowded with boats and barges, 1890 - commerce: naainachinen - hotel cafe restaurant prefloraal

ID: LUX4781547

Spain, Basque Country, San Sebastian (San Sebastian): old quarter, church of San Sebastian, 1890

ID: GIA4781415

Fables by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95). Illustration by François Chauveau (1613-1676). Edition of 1728.

Chauveau, Francois (1613-76)

ID: GIA4781447

The Rat and the Elephant. Fables by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95). Illustration by François Chauveau (1613-1676). Edition of 1728.

Chauveau, Francois (1613-76)

ID: LUX4781479

France, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Nord (59), Dunkirk: party in a northern port with many curious coming to contemplate an arch made of different pieces of boats: bar, lantern, mats, pennants. Port bordered by brick architecture buildings, 1890

ID: LUX4781499

Italy, Venetie, Venice: overview of St. Mark's Basilica, without the tower collapsed in 1903, with many tourists and pigeons, 1903

ID: GIA4781625

Women and Secret. Fables by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95). Illustration by François Chauveau (1613-1676). Edition of 1728.

Chauveau, Francois (1613-76)

ID: LUX4781628

France, Auvergne: the 'guys' of the Berry walk through a festive village under a sign, 1910 - sign: welcome to the guy of the Berry - trade: jean Soulas carpenter

ID: LUX4783407

Belgium, Brussels: king's house on the Grand Place, cortege of notables, 1900 - manufacture of fishing articles - flowers, legumes

ID: LUX4783757

France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: la Chaume, la cote a maree haute, le calvary vu du fort Saint-Nicolas un jour de tempete, 1925

Unknown photographer, (20th century)

ID: LUX4783863

France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: la Chaume, la cote et le calvary, 1900

ID: GIA4783882

A native man lighting a fire by rubbing two pieces of wood. Engraving from “” Navigationi and Viaggi”” by Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1485-1557), vol. III, Venice 1565.

Italian School, (16th century)

ID: GIA4783746

The philosopher and politician Oswald Mosley (1896-1980), leader of the British fascist party, near Mussolini, attended the young fascists at the horse competition in Piazza di Siena in Rome on 21/04/1934.

ID: GIA4783912

Invention of the hammock: this invention revolutionized the life of sailors aboard ships. They slept before on the wet deck. Engraving from the book “Historia general de las Indias, islas y tierra firme del mar oceano”” by Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo (Gonzalo) or Fernandez de, ou Hernandez de Oviedo y Valdes (1478-1557), 1535

Spanish School, (16th century)

ID: GIA4784022

Representation of the Caribbean Islands and the coasts of Venezuela. Isolario (map of islands) by Benedetto Bordone. Venice 1547

Italian School, (16th century)

ID: LUX4783444

France, Centre, Loiret (45), Montargis: February 1899, comic troupier, two soldiers simulate an enema with clystere and basin, Private Breard, Bailly and Rene Henry - Regiment 89

ID: LUX4783472

France, Ile-de-France, Paris (75): Bois de Boulogne, cyclists at rest, 1897

ID: GIA4783501

Portrait of Jean Fouquet (French Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1420-1477).

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: GIA4783532

Paper making in the 19th century. Woelter (Voelter) paper machine

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: LUX4783555

France, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Pas-de-Calais (62), Berck-sur-Mer (Berck-Ville and Berck-Plage): September 1901, promenade sur la plage à dos d'ane, 1901

ID: GIA4783604

Paper making in the 19th century.

French School, (19th century)

ID: LUX4784045

France, Pays de la Loire, Loire-Atlantique (44), Saint Nazaire: the ship “” Spain”” leaves the port of Saint-Nazaire pulled by a tug, 1925

ID: GIA4784141

The navigator Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) aboard his caravel.

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: LUX4784213

France, Pays de la Loire, Maine-et-Loire (49), Saumur: August 1900, stone bridge over the Loire with a regiment of the “black frame” crossing a tram

ID: LUX4784233

France, Pays de la Loire, Maine-et-Loire (49), Saumur: August 1900, church of Notre Dame de Nantilly (Notre-Dame-de-Nantilly)

ID: GIA4784056

View of the house “” Alcazar de Colón”” built by Christopher Columbus for his son Diego Columbus (Diego Colon y Moniz) (1480-1526), on an island of Santo Domingo. Engraving of the 19th century.

Unknown Artist, (19th century)

ID: LUX4784331

France, Brittany, Finistere (29), Rumengol: May 1908, the forgiveness of the Trinity Notre Dame, the proctege of the priest crosses the crowd of pelerins in local costume

ID: GIA4785853

In California, a bathing woman was attacked by an octopus (giant octopus) who suddenly wrapped her in her tentacles. “La tribuna illustrata”, 1937. Ill. de Vittorio Pisani.

Pisani, Vittorio (1899-1974)